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Para evitar la deshonra familiar por un lío de faldas, Miguel, un joven noble, es enviado a la provincia de Luisiana, en América del Norte. Él se lo tomará como un destierro del que espera regresar pronto a España. Una vez en Nueva Orleans, el gobernador del territorio, Bernardo de Gálvez, amigo de la familia, decide trasladarlo para mantenerlo a salvo ante la proximidad de la guerra contra los ingleses.

Peru, 1714. A centuries-old bridge suddenly snaps, sending five travelers plunging to their deaths. Brother Juniper, a devout and curious monk, sets out to answer a haunting question: Why these five? In seeking meaning in tragedy, he unearths the hidden stories of the victims—their passions, regrets, and quiet moments of grace. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Bridge of San Luis Rey is a profound meditation on love, destiny, and the invisible threads that bind us.

"As close to perfect a moral fable as we are ever likely to get in American literature." —Russell Banks "There are books that haunt you down the years, books that seem to touch and stir something deep inside you. . . . Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey is of this kind." —The Independent...

Thornton Wilder's beautiful novel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, tells the story of a bridge in Lima, Peru, where one day in the 18th century, five people lost their life. A friar devotes himself to investigating the accident and concludes that all the dead had fulfilled their destiny and it was inevitable that they would die that day.