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During a winter blizzard in Brooklyn, human‑rights scholar Richard Bowmaster collides with Evelyn Ortega, a young undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. As their collision turns into a desperate plea for help, Richard, unsettled, turns to his tenant, 62‑year‑old Chilean lecturer Lucia Maraz. The unlikely trio—Richard, Evelyn, and Lucia—draws a narrative that shifts from contemporary Brooklyn to recent Guatemalan history, and then back to 1970s Chile and Brazil, ultimately igniting a heartfelt romance between Richard and Lucia while exposing the human rights struggles that bind them.
First publish date: 2014
Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction
Authors: Isabel Allende
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