El signo del adiós

Through the years, said Gunter von Gropius, more than once have I felt certain feeling of anxiety, of a silent melancholy. Even though the motive may look foolish, tackiness very own of young women, it has always been the same: take at fault the complexity of a friend. That shortage is the way of Glands, a novel by Eduardo Rojas Rebolledo where memory takes a lead role. Starting from the narrators own memories, full of humor and melancholy, they outline what forms a friendship filled with sexual adventures, jilted lovers and jealousy, intrigues, painful affairs and death.

From the bestselling author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette comes a dramatic novel and powerful love story about the last Russian imperial family. It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. What neighbors and even her children don't know, however, is that she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known as Tania to her parents, Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra.

"Me imagino a las familias alrededor de las mesas, preparadas para cenar, con los hogares encendidos y los leños quemándose en su felicidad. Pero no para mí: yo estoy, desde hace meses, hundido en el ocio." Andrés Stella no le encuentra la vuelta a su existencia y se deja caer en el ocio: comer, dormir, escuchar música, vagabundear. La solución sería trabajar, pero no tiene ánimo para eso. Vive con su padre y su hermano, aunque desde que murió la madre están tan cerca uno del otro como los planetas. Se engancha a vender droga con un amigo, y quedan sujetos a los vaivenes anímicos...

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