| Format: Hardcover, 288pp. ISBN: 0786710241 Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group Pub. Date: May 2002 From the Publisher "When Alex Nadal inherits his aunt's farm near Barcelona he's intrigued. First, because his aunt, who for all his life he believed died towards the end of the Spanish Civil War, has apparently died again sixty years later. Secondly, because as an American he's curious about his roots, about which his father has always maintained a stubborn silence." "But his is not a prodigal's return. From the moment he steps off the plane it is made clear that the best thing he can do is step right back on again. Alex is not a farmer, he's a piano player, nor is he a hero, but he's no pushover either. People tell him to go away, so he resolves to stay. He wants answers, and when he doesn't get them, he asks more questions, and the more he asks the deeper he digs himself into trouble - with the neighbours in the village, with Salvador Oriol, the uncrowned king of Catalunya, and with Carmen, a dark-eyed journalist from the Barcelona daily who shares his unhealthy habit of asking too many questions." Where Alex comes from the past is history, but he discovers that here it's merely unfinished business. And in the end it's a simple choice: finish it before it finishes him. |
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