Nueve semanas y media

Desde el origen de los tiempos, los Homs han habitado en armonía con su entorno, pero el destino los confrontará a dos de sus más grandes temores. Porque mientras una especie duda de la existencia de la otra, una tercera emergerá silenciosa de las profundidades de la tierra para destruir el mundo que ambas conocen.

Translated into 25 languages, this novel shows what life was like in Iran before the Islamic revolution of 1979 and in the decades since. Masumeh, a 15-year-old girl, falls for a boy named Said. When their relationship is discovered, Masumeh's family is outraged and forces her into an arranged marriage with a man named Hamid, who devotes his life and the majority of time to politics. Over 30 years, Masumeh suffers through the country's radical changes until one day, one of life's unexpected turns forces her to choose between happiness and honoring tradition.

Bram MacKinloch había pasado siete largos y atormentados años en cautiverio y sólo hubo tres cosas que lo mantuvieron vivo: la fuerza bruta, la sed de venganza y el recuerdo del bello rostro de su esposa. El asombro sólo fue una de las sensaciones que estremecieron el cuerpo de Nairna cuando volvió a ver a Bram. Las cicatrices mostraban su sufrimiento y sus ojos reflejaban la voracidad de un deseo tan ardiente que podía consumirlos a los dos. Sin embargo, muchas cosas habían cambiado desde que se unieron con tanta inocencia...

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