Alli donde se construyen los suenos / Where Dreams Are Built

Eric Marchal

Alli donde se construyen los suenos / Where Dreams Are Built
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Country
Spain
Published
23 October 2018
Pages
816
ISBN
9788425356650

Alli donde se construyen los suenos / Where Dreams Are Built

Eric Marchal

La pluma experta y magistral de Eric Marchal rinde tributo a la explosion cientifica, cultural y artistica de finales del s. XIX con una ambiciosa saga familiar marcada por el amor, el idealismo y la amistad.Andalucia, junio de 1863. Clement Delhorme, un apasionado astronomo, y su esposa Alicia viven en Granada, donde ella trabaja en la restauracion de la Alhambra junto al arquitecto Rafael Contreras.

Clement esta obsesionado con hacer volar un enorme globo que permita surcar los cielos cuando llega a la ciudad un joven ingeniero, Gustave Eiffel. Pronto, los dos genios se dan cuenta que no solo les une su pasion por el progreso sino tambien un temperamento fuerte y una ambicion sin limite.

Pese a su reciente paternidad de trillizos, Delhorme no cesara en sus investigaciones aeronauticas al tiempo que asesora al joven Eiffel, que pretende construir un puente en Portugal que franquee el Duero. Arropado por esta familia de artistas y cientificos brillantes, y en el recogimiento de los magicos jardines y las maravillosas fuentes de la Alhambra, se forjara el destino de Eiffel, quien, anos mas tarde, levantara la famosa torre parisina y la Estatua de la Libertad.

La vanguardia une Granada y Paris mediante las ambiciones de los genios Delhorme y Eiffel, dos hombres dedicados a la ciencia que rinden homenaje a todas aquellas mentes que impulsaron la modernidad y el progreso a finales del s. XIX.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Eric Marchal’s masterful pen pays tribute to the scientific, cultural, and artistic explosion of the late 19th century with an ambitious family saga marked by love, idealism, and friendship.

Andalusia, Spain 1863, Clement Delhorme, a passionate astronomer and his wife Alicia live in Granada. Clement is obsessed with getting a huge balloon up in the air, one in which he can fly cross the skies, when a young engineer, Gustave Eiffel, arrives in town. Soon, the two geniuses realize that they have many things in common like their craving for progress, a strong personality, and an overwhelming ambition. Delhorme continues with his aeronautical research while being a mentor to the young Eiffel, who intends to build a bridge in Portugal that crosses the Douro river.

Being taken under the wings of a family full of brilliant artists and scientists and living in the midst of the wonderful Alhambra gardens and fountains, definitely shaped Eiffel’s destiny, to later build the famous Parisian tower and the Statue of Liberty. The avant-garde unites Granada and Paris through the ambitions of these two geniuses, Delhorme and Eiffel; two men devoted to science who pay homage to those great minds that promoted modernity and progress at the end of the 19th century.

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