Berta Isla / Berta Isla: A novel
Javier Marias
Berta Isla / Berta Isla: A novel
Javier Marias
Una apasionante historia de espias y, al mismo tiempo, un profundo examen del matrimonio basado en secretos y mentiras.
En el colegio, Berta Isla decidio que se casaria con Tomas Nevinson, el apuesto chico de su clase, medio espanol medio ingles, con un extraordinario don de lenguas. Pero cuando Tomas regresa a Madrid tras sus estudios en Oxford, es un hombre diferente. Alli ha sido reclutado por un agente de los servicios secretos britanicos, desencadenando asi una serie de acontecimientos que afectaran la vida que ambos habian planeado. Con su inigualable modo de explorar los mas oscuros rincones del ser humano, Marias sumerge al lector en el creciente abismo que se abre lentamente entre Berta y Tomas y las decisiones que cambiaran irremediablemente a ambos. Berta Isla es una novela sobre el amor y la verdad, sobre el miedo y los secretos, sobre las identidades ocultas y el destino que decidimos asumir en nuestra vida.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
From award-winning, internationally best-selling Spanish
writer, author of The Infatuations, comes a gripping novel
of intrigue and missed chances–at once a spy story and a profound
examination of a marriage founded on secrets and lies.
When Berta Isla was a schoolgirl, she decided she would marry Tomas
Nevinson–the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an
extraordinary gift for languages. But when Tomas returns to Madrid from his
studies at Oxford, he is a changed man. Unbeknownst to her, he has been
approached by an agent from the British intelligence services, and he has
unwittingly set in motion events that will derail forever the life they had
planned. With peerless insight into the most shadowed corners of the human
soul, Marias plunges the reader into the growing chasm between Berta and
Tomas and the decisions that irreversibly change the course of the couple’s
fate. Berta Isla is a
novel of love and truth, fear and secrecy, buried identities, and the
destinies we bring upon ourselves.
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