Showing results for "Amistad" in Sagas

Nayeli, una joven tehuana que ha huido de su hogar, llega a la ciudad de México desamparada. Gracias a sus maravillosos dotes en la cocina encuentra un lugar en la Casa Azul, donde Frida Kahlo vive prácticamente aislada desde el fatal accidente que la dejó paralítica. Entre sabores, aromas y...

WINNER OF THE 2025 WHITING AWARD FOR FICTION PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FINALIST ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE LONGLIST As wrenching and luminous as Omar El Akkad’s What Strange Paradise and Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West, a searing exploration of the global migration crisis that moves from Nigeria to...

A ferociously talented writer makes his stunning debut with this richly woven tapestry, set in a small Nova Scotia town settled by former slaves, that depicts several generations of one family bound together and torn apart by blood, faith, time, and fate. Vogue : Best Books to Read This Winter...

The Hurston-Wright Award Finalist makes her long-awaited return with this electrifying saga—as moving and indelible as The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, The Turner House, and The Love Songs of W. E. B. DuBois—that explores three generations of a family trying to overcome trials and trauma and...

Haunted by scandal and secrets, Lillian Baptiste fled Dominica when she was fourteen after discovering she was the daughter of Iris, the half-crazy woman whose life was told of in chanté mas songs sung during Carnival songs about a village on a mountaintop littered with secrets, masquerades...

Combining the haunting power of Toni Morrison’s Beloved with the evocative atmosphere of Phillippa Gregory’s A Respectable Trade, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa’s groundbreaking novel illuminates a little discussed aspect of history—the Puerto Rican Atlantic Slave Trade—witnessed through the...

Hamburgo, 1970. Henny celebra su cumpleaños rodeada de su familia y de sus inseparables amigas. El hilo de la complicidad que unía su vida con la de Käthe, Lina e Ida continúa ahora en las nuevas generaciones: Florentine, la modelo que regresa de París con una inesperada noticia; Katja, que...

Las vidas de toda una generación de mujeres marcadas por el consultorio más famoso de la radio. Por la autora de El prodigio de las migas de pan Mayo de 1952. Berta, una huérfana de veintiún años procedente de un pueblo aragonés, viaja a Barcelona junto con su madre adoptiva, Eleonora, y...