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    Saffron skies
    • Saffron skies

      • 448 páginas
      • 16 horas de lectura

      Max Sall: powerful, wealthy and utterly ruthless, a man without a past. His wife, Angela: a society debutante who fell in love with the dark, handsome chauffeur, and broke her parents' hearts when she married him. His mistress: Francesca, the glamorous Alitalia air stewardess, who saw in Max her ticket out of the Italian provinces and grabbed it - and him - with both hands. And his daughters: Amber, more like her father than she'll ever know - smart, shrewd and determined to achieve, whatever the cost; and Paola, groomed by her mother to succeed where she failed, in getting a man to marry her. Max's women are very different, but they all demand his attention. While Amber and Paola are growing up in the 1970s, their mothers somehow find a way to share Max between them. But when Amber and Paola fall in love with the same man two decades later, they're determined that this time there will be no sharing... Moving effortlessly across five decades, SAFFRON SKIES is a magnificent story of sisters, friends, families and love from Lesley Lokko, one of the most outstanding voices in commercial fiction.

      Saffron skies2006
      3,7
    • Un estudiante de matemáticas argentino viaja a Oxford con fines académicos. Pero poco después de su llegada se encuentra con el cadáver de la anciana que lo alojaba, junto con un desafío matemático del asesino. Inicia así, paralelamente a la policía, su propia investigación, guiado por su maestro, el eminente lógico Arthur Seldom. Los juegos de lenguaje de Wittgenstein, el teorema de Gödel y las sectas matemáticas antiguas se conjugan en esta espléndida novela negra con los sombríos hospitales ingleses, los arrebatos de la pasión y la vida universitaria de Oxford como escenario. Una novela policíaca de trama aparentemente clásica que, en su sorprendente desenlace, se revela como un magistral acto de prestidigitación.

      Los Crímenes de Oxford2004
      3,3