Claude Demanuelli Libros

Margaret Lea no sabía mucho sobre Vida Winter. Aunque, dado el carácter hermético de la escritora, poco o nada era lo que el común de los mortales sabía de ella. Margaret, sin embargo, conocía la existencia de un curioso libro de la autora con una docena de relatos, cuyo decimotercer texto no era sino un error de cubierta y el único vestigio de un escrito que jamás había llegado a ver la luz: el cuento número trece. Una ausencia con un aura de leyenda, y, quizá, el motivo por el que Vida Winter se había decidido a hablar en el final de sus días.

Contemporary / British English It is 1954 and Kabuo Miyamoto is on trial for murder. He is a Japanese American living on the island of San Piedro, off the north-west coast of America. The Second World War has left an atmosphere of anger and suspicion in this small community. Will Kabuo receive a fair trial? And will the true cause of the victim's death be discovered?

On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaust fumes to fill his vehicle. Archie - working-class, ordinary, a failed marriage under his belt - is calling it quits, the deciding factor being the flip of a coin. When the owner of a nearby halal butcher shop (annoyed that Archie's car is blocking his delivery area) comes out and bangs on the window, he gives Archie another chance at life and sets in motion the events of the story. Set in post-war London, this novel of the racial, political, and social upheaval of the last half of the twentieth century follows two families - the Joneses and the Iqbals, both outsiders from within the former British empire - as they make their way in modern England