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Having left her job and boyfriend, thirty year old Sandra decides to stay in a village on the Costa Blanca in order to take stock of her life and find a new direction. She befriends Karin and Fredrik, an elderly Norwegian couple, who provide her with stimulating company and take the place of the grandparents she never had. However, when she meets Julián, a former concentration-camp inmate who has just returned to Europe from Argentina, she discovers that all is not what it seems and finds herself involved in a perilous quest for the truth.As well as being a powerful account of self-discovery and an exploration of history and redemption, The Scent of Lemon Leaves is a sophisticated and nail-biting page-turner by one of Spain’s most accomplished authors.
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The Scent of Lemon Leaves, Clara Sánchez
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- 2012
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Clara Sánchez
- Released
- 2012
- ISBN10
- 1846881854
- ISBN13
- 9781846881855
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Romance, Historical Fiction, Thriller, Contemporary Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Spanish Literature, Spain
- First published
- 2010
- Original title
- Lo que esconde tu nombre
- Rating
- 3.35 out of 5
- Description
- Having left her job and boyfriend, thirty year old Sandra decides to stay in a village on the Costa Blanca in order to take stock of her life and find a new direction. She befriends Karin and Fredrik, an elderly Norwegian couple, who provide her with stimulating company and take the place of the grandparents she never had. However, when she meets Julián, a former concentration-camp inmate who has just returned to Europe from Argentina, she discovers that all is not what it seems and finds herself involved in a perilous quest for the truth.As well as being a powerful account of self-discovery and an exploration of history and redemption, The Scent of Lemon Leaves is a sophisticated and nail-biting page-turner by one of Spain’s most accomplished authors.