El Baile de Las Mareas / Dance of the Tides - Hardcover
El Baile de Las Mareas / Dance of the Tides - Hardcover
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by Laura Portas (Author)
Una vida truncada por la tragedia.
Un destino caprichoso.
Una voluntad capaz de bailar al son de las mareas.
Vila de Pazos, principios del siglo XX. Aurora es una joven mariscadora a punto de casarse. Su lucha por labrarse un futuro da un giro cuando empieza a trabajar como sirvienta en un pazo se?orial. All? no solo se adentra en un mundo noble e hidalgo, sino que se convierte en la protagonista de una historia de amor, misterio e intereses cruzados entre las familias m?s poderosas de la villa. Rodeada de traiciones y envuelta en el aura enigm?tica de una Galicia tan m?gica como misteriosa, Aurora deber? sobreponerse a su origen humilde para vencer las dificultades que se le presentan y reconstruir su vida.
A fickle fate.
A will capable of dancing to the tides. Vila de Pazos, early twentieth century. Aurora is a young shellfish farmer about to get married. Her struggle to craft a future for herself takes a turn when she starts working as a maid at a stately pazo, where she not only enters a noble and aristocratic world, but becomes protagonist of a story that revolves around love, mystery, and crossed interests between the most powerful families in the villa. Surrounded by betrayal and shrouded by the enigmatic aura of a Galicia as whimsical as it is mysterious, Aurora must overcome her humble origins to surmount the difficulties that arise and rebuild her life. In her fascinating first novel, Laura Portas, native of Cambados, recreates the landscapes that watched her grow up to explore an era she researched to perfection. Every reader that enters this novel will begin a passionate journey through the R?as Baixas of a hundred years ago, a seafaring land of albari?o, pazos, legend, passion, and unparalleled beauty.
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