Un siglo revivido en siete relatos pertenecientes a un pasado ya perdido en el que se desarrollan historias de mujeres y hombres, en su diversidad, con algunos temas comunes.La libertad y la voluntad, la tradición y la innovación, las certezas y las dudas de una tierra ancestral, salvaje y profunda como es Cerdeña, reviven aún hoy en los pensamientos de sus habitantes del pasado, en lugares que, al fin y al cabo, nunca han cambiado.

Russia, 1910. Leo Tolstoy lies dying in Astapovo, a remote railway station. Members of the press from around the world have descended upon this sleepy hamlet to record his passing for a public suddenly ravenous for celebrity news. They have been joined by a film company whose cinematographer, Nikolai Gribshin, is capturing the extraordinary scene and learning how to wield his camera as a political tool. At this historic moment he comes across two...

She played a dangerous game. Carolyn Browne was a poor bookseller's daughter and an enlightened thinker, delighting London with her scathingly witty columns, written under the name Charles Copperville. Penetrating the town's gilded salons in male disguise, Carolyn soon throws her barbs at the wrong man-- the enigmatic Russian prince, Nicholas Sverayov. He was a dangerous target. His notoriety, extravagances, and indulgent disregard for social convention...

Durante los últimos seis años, la señorita Lizzie Doherty ha tenido exactamente cero propuestas de matrimonio. No porque no sea atractiva, o de una buena familia o no tenga amigos bien conectados, sino simplemente porque es pobre. O eso cree la alta sociedad. Invitada a una fiesta en una casa de campo en una noche de tormenta, su viaje da un giro inesperado cuando su conductor la lleva a la propiedad equivocada. Al entrar a la casa, pronto se enmascara...

1910, Angleterre. Honoria Bellefort, jeune veuve de vingt-sept ans, accepte un poste de préceptrice à Wakefield Manor, dans les paisibles Cotswolds. Entre les murs du manoir, les mystères se dessinent et les bouches se condamnent au silence. ​ Et tandis que les cœurs s'embrasent, la tragédie se profile. ​ Deux ailes d'un manoir, l'une habitée par la duplicité, l'autre par les ruines. Saurez-vous trouver les réponses parmi les vestiges...

First published in the US by Alfred A. Knopf in 1928 in this English translation by A. G. Chater, now public domain. Set in 13th-century Norway, The Axe is the first volume in Undset's epic tetralogy, The Master of Hestviken. In it, we meet Olav Audunsson and Ingunn Steinfinnsdatter, who were betrothed as children and raised as brother and sister. In the heedlessness of youth, they become lovers, unaware that their ardor will forge the first link...

Roman England, 366 AD. Minna, a Roman serving girl, loses family and home and is flung out into the brutal world to fend for herself. Desperate to reach her soldier brother at the northern frontier, she falls in with Cian, a tribeless youth with no loyalty to anyone but himself. A terrible mistake sees them thrust into the wilds of barbarian Scotland, a land in chaos. The Romans have sent scouts north from their frontier, seeking to subdue Scotland...

A dramatic retelling of the life of the tough and bellicose sixth-century King of Persia, Cyrus the Great.

Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows is a story for our time by "a writer of immense ambition and strength. . . . This is an absorbing novel that commands in the reader a powerful emotional and intellectual response" -Salman Rushdie. Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award An Orange Prize Finalist Nagasaki, August 9, 1945. Hiroko Tanaka watches her lover from the veranda as he leaves. Sunlight streams across Urakami Valley, and then the world goes...

From Pamela Binnings Ewen, bestselling author of The Queen of Paris and Émilienne, The Moon in the Mango Tree is a lush historical novel set in the 1920s. It is a dazzling decade, and Barbara Bond is a beautiful young singer torn between her fierce desire for independence and her deep, abiding love for her husband, a brilliant doctor. She has trained for years to sing grand opera, but soon after her marriage to Harvey Perkins, she learns that he...