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Prudencia Prim is a young woman of high ideals, intelligence and achievement, with an extensive knowledge of literature and several letters after her name. But when she accepts the post of private librarian to a wealthy bibliophile in the secluded village of San Ireneo de Arnois, she is unprepared for what she will encounter there. Her employer, a philosopher and intellectual, is dashing yet contrarian, always ready with a stinging critique of her beloved Austen and Alcott. And the neighbours are also capable of charm and eccentricity in equal measure, determined as they are to preserve their singular little community from the outside world. Thoughtful, gentle Prudencia might have hoped for friendship in San Ireneo but she didn't expect to find romance - nor did she expect the course of her new life to run quite so rocky, to offer challenge and heartache as well as discovery, joy and delicious regional pastries. The Awakening of Miss Prim is a delightfully unusual and entertaining tale of literature, love and the search for happiness.

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.