José Antonio Soriano Marco Books

The second instalment in the million-copy bestselling Nazi spy series for fans of Dan Brown, Steve Berry and Wilbur Smith

Smita, Giulia, Sarah: three lives, three continents, three women with nothing in common, but nevertheless bound by a rare expression of courage . . . like three strands in a braid. Through the story of one woman's hair, three women's destinies are drawn together. India. Smita is an untouchable, married to a 'rat hunter', her job to clean with her bare hands the village latrines, just like her mother before her. Her dream is to see her daughter escape this same fate, and learn to read. When this hope is shattered, she decides to run away with the child, despite her husband's warnings, sacrificing what is most precious to her: her hair. Sicily. Giulia is a worker in her father's wig workshop, the last of its kind in Palermo. She classifies, washes, bleaches, and dyes the hair provided by the city's hairdressers. When her father is the victim of a serious accident, she quickly discovers the family company is bankrupt. Canada. Sarah is a reputed lawyer. As a twice-divorced mother of three children, she ploughs through cases at breakneck speed. Just as she is about to be promoted, she learns she has breast cancer. Her seemingly perfect existence begins to show its cracks . . . But this is only if one ignores the incredible lust for life that keeps her going. Laetitia Colombani's The Braid is the powerfully moving story of three women's courage in the face of adversity.

Con un estilo muy fluido y un lenguaje muy cercano al periodístico, Cendrars nos cuenta la vida de un hombre extraordinario: el escritor y aventurero Jean Galmot que, después de amasar una enorme fortuna en la Guayana, llega a conocer la prisión y la ruina. Al dibujar el retrato de un hombre idealista atrapado por su innato sentido de la libertad, el autor logra construir una especie de Quijote paradójico en lucha contra los poderes coloniales. Diputado por Guayana, Jean Galmot fue acusado de especulación en el affaire del ron de 1919, y durante el proceso, en el que se defendió a sí mismo, se presentó como un empresario altruista atrapado por las maniobras hostiles de los grandes grupos financieros del mundo parisino. Acorralado, proclamó su amor inquebrantable por el pueblo de Guayana, que lo llamaba «papá Galmot», y juró defender su libertad hasta la muerte.