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Después del paréntesis de Deseo de chocolate, novela fragmentaria y de ambientación histórica lejana, Care Santos vuelve a la línea novelística que le ha valido su mayor éxito, la de Habitaciones cerradas, con más de 25.000 ejemplares vendidos. Diamante azul nos sumerge en el pasado familiar y de la ciudad de Barcelona, en una época, las primeras décadas del siglo XX, en que el esplendor de la burguesía se contrapone a la convulsión social que se vivía en la ciudad.

«Le gustaba cómo la miraba, con unos ojos de un azul tan transparente que parecía posible vislumbrar algo detrás de ellos. A veces se lo preguntaba; Teresa Marquès se preguntaba qué podía haber detrás de unos ojos como los de su marido (¡su marido! ¡pero qué gracia!): ¿quizás había un pasado? ¿un futuro, un olvido y un destino? Teresa no era capaz de encontrar la respuesta, pero le daba lo mismo, porque aquel azul era como para pintarse la vida entera con él. Una vida Azul Silvestre. La que por fin había llegado.»

A novel about prejudices and difficulties that women have to face when occupying , or expecting to occupy, maintaining or gaining a position of power – then and now. The novel is a cry for equality, which in Spain is misunderstood: Women representing half of the student body means nothing if in reality women can’t have powerful positions, specially at an economic level.

The novel also digs deep in what power means to women: what pushes them to look for it, what it means to them, what they want, and what are the consequences when they do have it.

The novel is written in the first person: Isabel’s a Minister of Economy and the leading candidate for her party in the presidential elections. Along the way she will lose and win many things, and people.

Based on the true story of Errol Flynn’s stay in Majorca, El ecuador de Ulises reflects on the importance of believing in dreams.

Errol Flynn (June 20, 1909 – October 14, 1959), immoderate vagrant, and modern embodiment of Ulises’s myth, arrived during his particular quest for Ithaca on board of the Zaca to the Majorca of the 1950s, when this Mediterranean island was still heavily anchored in its past and traditions. The presence of Hollywood stars like Flynn, Ava Gardner, John Wayne, or Rita Hayworth, brought a touch of glamor never seen before, as well as a mighty view on the world beyond that was curtly silenced by the regime.

El invierno que tomamos cartas en el asunto is a homage to letters and writing.

Winter has come to Porvenir bringing bad news due to a lack of mail, the Post office will be shut down, and all staff transfered. Sms, e-mails and whatsapps seem to have won the game even on the mountains.

Sara, the only postman in town, was born and lives there with her three small children. She spends many hours with her neighbor Rosa, an eighty-year-old woman who would do anything to spare Sara and her children afflictions.

But what can an old lady do to prevent the lives of her loved ones from being disrupted? Maybe something as small as writing a letter, one she has been keeping in her heart for sixty years…

The links between four generations of women in the same family. A shared sentimental geography clouded by the traumatic passing of one of them

For seven days and seven nights, a house with a view to the lake and an autumn landscape will accompany the confidential conversation between a mother and a daughter that will transport the readers beyond time and space. The story will invite them to embark on an emotional trip starting before the Spanish Civil War and extending to present times with only one purpose: to reveal the most private episodes in the lives of the people who preceded them.

Mutual understanding, sympathy and affection will bring down the veils of the past one by one. As these veils slowly fall, light will permeate gradually the soul of the two women, and finally dissipate the doubts and fears that were oppressing them. The old scenes will gain color and the characters of the past will come to life, speaking, shouting, laughing or crying.

All in all, the book is a gallery of portraits in a wide range of tonalities: the greyness of winter, placid ocres, the tender green of early love, and the red of passion. There are bold strokes and subtle tones, leading into the lives of a few women connected by secrets and memories, and into a scenery presided by a house and a coppery grove reflected on the calm waters of the lake.