| La Naturaleza de Las Lágrimas Contributor(s): Carey, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 6071126126 ISBN-13: 9786071126122 Publisher: Alfaguara OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Paperback Language: Spanish Published: April 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6" W x 9.4" (1.15 lbs) 340 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Catherine Gehrig, conservadora del Museo Swinburne de Londres, ve c mo su vida se derrumba tras la muerte de su compa ero de trabajo y amante de los ltimos trece a os. Su ltimo correo Besos en los dedos de los pies , llega a su buz n cuando l ya ha muerto, y Catherine se derrumba por la carga a adida de tener que esconder sus sentimientos. Pero su jefe, quien conoce el secreto, le encarga un proyecto que la mantendr alejada del escrutinio de los dem s: debe volver a poner en funcionamiento un aut mata celosamente guardado en el museo. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION When Catherine Gehrig, a museum conservator in London, falls into grief after her lover's sudden death, her boss gives her a special project. She will bring back to "life" a nineteenth-century mechanical bird. As she begins to piece the automaton together, Catherine also uncovers the diaries of Henry Brandling, who, more than a hundred years prior, had commissioned the bird for his very ill son. Catherine finds resonance and comfort in Henry's story. But it is the mechanical creature itself, in its uncanny imitation of life, that will link these two people across a century. Through the clockwork bird, Henry and Catherine will confront the mysteries of creation, the power of human invention, and the body's astonishing chemistry of love and feeling. |