"In the waning months of World War II, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives. At the center is eighteen-year old Anna, the daughter of Prussian aristocrats, and her first love, a twenty-year old Scottish prisonor of war named Callum. With his boyish good looks and his dedication to her family, he has captured Anna's heart. But he is the enemy, and their love must remain a closely guarded secret. Only Manfred, a twenty-six...

"A sweeping novel of art theft, anti-Semitism, contemporary Cuba, and crime from a renowned Cuban author. In 1939, the Saint Louis sails from Hamburg into Havana's port with hundreds of Jewish refugees seeking asylum from the Nazi regime. From the docks, nine-year-old Daniel Kaminsky watches as the passengers, including his mother, father, and sister, become embroiled in a fiasco of Cuban corruption. But the Kaminskys have a treasure that they hope...

With war ravaging his home in Syria, Dabbour, an introverted, 25-year-old pigeon herder, flees to Berlin with Yasser, his childhood friend. Dabbour is trying to learn the ropes in this new country; while trying to learn German he's fallen for his German teacher, Zara. One day in a Berlin train station, Dabbour sees a wayward, injured pigeon on the railway tracks; without thinking he jumps to save it, causing chaos and almost getting himself killed....

PREMIO ALFAGUARA DE NOVELA 2024. Un acontecimiento poco conocido de la reciente historia de España. Una historia sobre la familia, la traición y la culpa. Oscuros secretos familiares encierran un pasado amenazador capaz de destruir el presente. ¿Heredan los hijos la culpa de los padres? Una novela apasionante que pone a prueba la conciencia de los personajes y que sacude la del lector ". Del acta del jurado En 1916, en plena Primera Guerra Mundial,...