Author(s): Rosa Ribas,Sabine Hofmann
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 320
Publisher: DEBOLSILLO
Language: Spanish
Date Published: 2016-01-26
Dimensions: 124.46 x 187.96 x 20.32mm
Publication City/Country: Barcelona, Spain
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Febrero de 1956. El invierno esta siendo terrible, el mas frio en Espana desde hace decadas. Esto no sera un obstaculo para que Ana Marti, ahora reportera de un popular semanario de sucesos, acuda a un aislado pueblecito del Maestrazgo aragones para cubrir el caso de una nina a la que han brotado los estigmas de la Pasion. El cura y el alcalde la reciben encantados ante la idea de que su santita se haga famosa en todo el pais. Pero ni don Julian, el esceptico cacique del pueblo, ni la mayoria de los habitantes comparten sus simpatias hacia la forastera. Solo Mauricio, un chico discapacitado, la inteligente y extrana nina Eugenia y la atormentada viuda que hospeda a Ana parecen dispuestos a hablar con ella. Pronto su olfato de periodista le dice que el caso de Isabelita no es el unico suceso extrano que acontece en Las Torres... El recuerdo de una nina muerta anos atras en misteriosas circunstancias, el fanatismo religioso, o el frio glacial y la nieve que amenazan con dejar al pueblo incomunicado son el telon de fondo de la intrigas de El gran frio. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION February of 1956. The winter has been terrible--the coldest in Spain in decades. This will not stop Ana Marti, now a reporter for a popular news weekly, from accessing a remote, isolated town in the Aragonese Mestrazgo to cover the story of a girl who is showing the marks of the stigmata. The priest and the mayor welcome her warmly, delighted by the idea that their "little saint" could become nationally famous. But neither Don Julian, the skeptical town bigwig, nor the majority of the townspeople share those sympathies toward the outsider. Only Mauricio, a poor disabled boy, the intelligent and strange little Eugenia, and the tormented widow who provides lodging to Ana seem to be willing to talk with her. Soon, her journalist's instinct tells her that the case of Isabelita isn't the only strange event to happen in Las Torres... the memory of a dead girl years ago under mysterious circumstances, religious fanaticism, and the glacial cold and snow that threaten to cut off the town are the backdrop for the plot of The Big Chill, a stunning thriller about the most base instincts of the human condition that is also an extraordinary portrait of the raw reality of rural Spain in the 1950s.