Vida y muerte de Sophie Stark

Inheriting her grandfather's fabulous California Impressionist paintings, art buyer and landscape artist Lacey Quinn uncovers a murderous plot when she investigates her grandfather's past.

Bay doesn't remember her house in west Australia, nor her garden on the coral reef of Ningaloo. She has forgotten that she was fighting to save the oceans and that whales were her family. She doesn't recognize the faces that now look at her. Her mother is a mystery and keeps only a few photos and many books with her father's oceanographic knowledge. In the attempt to draw a past erased from her mind, she will encounter multiple versions of who she was, with hidden truths and quiet secrets.

Ulises Blanco, a recently-widowed psychiatrist, experiences an emotional breakdown after receiving strange and disturbing emails from an unknown sender, and as he tries to determine who is causing his distress, his world is thrown into chaos.

Una parábola sobre la dialéctica entre la naturaleza y la moral, así como una reflexión sobre el despliegue de la libertad individual. Todo parece irle bien a Michal, un intelectual imbuido en la fe hugonote, cuando una enfermedad le pone al borde de la muerte. Mientras convalece, se transforma su actitud ante la vida: se convierte en un apasionado de la salud corporal, que él identifica con la energía, y de la sensualidad que percibe en los jóvenes de Biskra, la luminosa ciudad de Argelia donde ha ido a reponerse. Reseña: «Gide en raras ocasiones es poeta. La prosa le sirve más...