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Alba Mantovani

    Oscar Fantastica: Le ombre tra di noi
    Light Between Oceans
    We Never Asked for Wings
    Calling Me Home
    La Quinta Estación
    • Tres cosas terribles suceden en un solo día. Essun, haciéndose pasar por una maestra de escuela ordinaria en un pequeño y tranquilo pueblo, llega a casa y descubre que su esposo ha asesinado brutalmente a su hijo y ha secuestrado a su hija. Mighty Sanze, el imperio cuyas innovaciones han sido la base de la civilización durante mil años, se derrumba cuando su ciudad más grande es destruida por la venganza de un loco. Y lo peor de todo, en el corazón del único continente del mundo, se ha abierto una gran grieta roja que arroja suficientes cenizas para oscurecer el cielo durante años. O siglos. Pero esta es la Quietud, una tierra familiarizada con la lucha desde hace mucho tiempo, y donde los orogenes, aquellos que manejan el poder de la tierra como arma, son mucho más temidos que la larga y fría noche. Essun se ha recordado a sí misma y recuperará a su hija. No le importa si el mundo se desmorona a su alrededor. Essun lo romperá ella misma, si es necesario, para salvar a su hija

      La Quinta Estación
    • Eighty-nine-year-old Isabelle McAllister has a favor to ask her hairdresser Dorrie Curtis: drop everything and drive from Arlington, Texas, to a funeral in Cincinnati. Tomorrow. Dorrie, fleeing problems of her own, agrees. It''s a journey that changes both their lives, as she learns Isabelle''s tale of a forbidden relationship and its tragic consequences-- a tale that just might help Dorrie find her own way.

      Calling Me Home
    • For fourteen years, Letty Espinosa has worked three jobs around San Francisco to make ends meet while her mother raised her children--Alex, fifteen, and Luna, six--in their tiny apartment on a forgotten spit of wetlands near the bay. But now Letty's parents are returning to Mexico, and Letty must step up and become a mother for the first time in her life. Navigating this new terrain is challenging for Letty, especially as Luna desperately misses her grandparents and Alex, who is falling in love with a classmate, is unwilling to give his mother a chance. Letty comes up with a plan to help the family escape the dangerous neighborhood and heartbreaking injustice that have marked their lives, but one wrong move could jeopardize everything she's worked for and her family's fragile hopes for the future. Vanessa Diffenbaugh blends gorgeous prose with compelling themes of motherhood, undocumented immigration, and the American Dream in a powerful and prescient story about family.

      We Never Asked for Wings
    • Would you accept a chance for happiness even if it wasn't yours to have? This is a story about a lighthouse keeper and his wife, who live on a lonely island with just seagulls, stars and buffeting winds for company. It's about a tiny baby and a dead man in a boat that drifts ashore one April morning, and the apparently harmless decision made that day. More than anything, it's a story about right and wrong, and how sometimes they look the same.

      Light Between Oceans