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📖 Synopsis
A ruined colonial returnee finds a second chance between Mexico, Cuba and 19th-century Jerez. Dueñas and her gift for refined drama.
✍️ ChatZona's review
Dueñas has a gift for highbrow melodrama that very few Spanish writers possess. The plot is deliberately novelistic: the ruined returnee from the Americas, the strong-willed woman, the Jerez vineyards, the exotic backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico and Cuba. There are no philosophical depths, nor any pretense of them; there is a gripping pace and a well-researched setting. For readers who want history with entertainment without sacrificing decent prose.
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