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Dincolo de iarnă de Isabel Allende este un roman ce urmărește destinul a trei oameni foarte diferiți: o chilliană încercată de viață, un profesor universitar care vrea să uite trecutul și o imigrantă ilegală ce încearcă să supraviețuiască într-o lume străină. Cei trei, uniți de un eveniment pe care trebuie să-l depășească, se trezesc nevoiți să colaboreze, pe parcursul călătoriei lor descoperind, puțin câte puțin, cine sunt, care le-a fost trecutul și ce le oferă viitorul.

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Nonlinear Storylines: Literary Fiction

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama. Gifty is a fifth-year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after a knee injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. But even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her family's loss, she finds herself hungering for her childhood faith and grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as tantalizing as it is elusive. Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief--a novel about faith, science, religion, love. Exquisitely written, emotionally searing, this is an exceptionally powerful follow-up to Gyasi's phenomenal debut.

In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende, Nick Caistor (Translator), Amanda Hopkinson (Translator)

New York Times and worldwide bestselling “dazzling storyteller” (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil. In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident—which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster—a 60-year-old human rights scholar—hits the car of Evelyn Ortega—a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala—in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an unforeseen and far more serious turn when Evelyn turns up at the professor’s house seeking help. At a loss, the professor asks his tenant Lucia Maraz—a 62-year-old lecturer from Chile—for her advice. These three very different people are brought together in a mesmerizing story that moves from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil, sparking the beginning of a long overdue love story between Richard and Lucia.

Tin Man by Sarah Winman

This is almost a love story. Ellis and Michael are twelve when they first become friends, and for a long time it is just the two of them, cycling the streets of Oxford, teaching themselves how to swim, discovering poetry, and dodging the fists of an overbearing father. And then one day this closest of friendships grows into something more. But then we fast forward a decade or so, to find that Ellis is married to Annie, and Michael is nowhere in sight. Which leads to the question, what happened in the years between? This is almost a love story. But it's not as simple as that.

The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott

On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove—to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his badgering, pregnant wife—“that the hours of his life belong to himself alone.” In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun, appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child. We begin deep inside Catholic Brooklyn, in the early part of the twentieth century. Decorum, superstition, and shame collude to erase the man’s brief existence. Yet his suicide, although never spoken of, reverberates through many lives and over the decades—testing the limits and the demands of love and sacrifice, of forgiveness and forgetfulness, even through multiple generations. The characters we meet, from Sally, the unborn baby at the beginning of the novel, who becomes the center of the story, to the nuns whose personalities we come to know and love, to the neighborhood families with whose lives they are entwined, are all rendered with extraordinary sympathy and McDermott’s trademark lucidity and intelligence.

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2017 Holiday Newsletter

Welcome to the 2017 Politics and Prose Holiday Newsletter. As always, we’re proud to present a selection of some of the year’s most impressive books. Happy holidays to all!

Crossing Borders

Mohsin Hamid has consistently shown his genius for using literature to capture the tensions between Islam and the West that play out globally and in individual lives. His latest novel, Exit West (@riverheadbooks), is another example of his spare, elegant writing, and his fearlessness in treading on uncomfortable political ground. A love story at its core, the novel exposes disquieting truths about secular and fundamentalist interpretations of religion, culture, family, and community. Moments of magical realism provide an imaginative backdrop to the story, much of which takes place in a country never named and with doors that serve as metaphorical entry and exit points. A stunning novel. - Lissa M.

“History has failed us, but no matter.” When a writer opens her second novel with a sardonic statement like that, you hope that she’s up to the task of making it stick. Have no fear, Min Jin Lee is. Starting in the early 20th century, Pachinko (@grandcentralpub) chronicles the fortunes of a Korean family, first in a Korea under Japanese occupation, then as immigrants in Japan. The pachinko parlor that the family runs while in Japan is a perfect symbol of the kinds of hardships Korean immigrants in Japan face. The gambling establishment is their road to a better life. In fact, it’s the only such road. Perhaps this gives you the impression that the novel is only good as social commentary, its characters puppets. Actually, the reverse of is closer to the truth. It’s as if Lee started with the minutest details of her characters’ lives and the commentary grew out of it organically. When she observes how quickly Yangjin and Sunja have to get over Hoonie’s death, “At his burial, Yangjin and her daughter were inconsolable. The next morning, the young widow rose from her pallet and returned to work,” you feel the hardscrabble life of a Korean peasant all the more. One reviewer has aptly compared Lee to Thomas Mann. This is one book you can lose yourself in. - Sharat B.

Winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Fiction, awarded by Barbara Kingsolver for a novel that addresses issues of social justice, The Leavers, (@algonquinbooks) by Lisa Ko, is an exploration of the lives of a family of Chinese immigrants.  Polly, an undocumented immigrant, is rounded up in a raid on the nail salon where she works, gets caught up in the system, and eventually is repatriated to China.  Her eleven-year-old son doesn’t know where she’s gone or what happened to her. She’s just gone.  Fostering with a kind, intelligent couple (both are professors) in the suburbs, Deming has difficulty recovering from the trauma and confusion of his early life.  The book is timely and the subject important, but the strength of the novel lies in the composition of the principal characters, showing the depth of their humanity, their worthiness of our empathy. - Mark L.

In the Midst of Winter (@atriabooks-blog), by master storyteller Isabel Allende, begins on a cold and snowy day in Brooklyn. After a traffic accident brings them together, Richard Bowmaster and Evelyn Ortega discover they’re connected by a dark secret. This also involves Lucia Maraz, Richard’s tenant and colleague, who he turns to for help after the incident. Owing to circumstances, our three protagonists, plus one dog, find themselves becoming closer while going to extraordinary lengths to hide their secret. As Allende narrates their various pasts, it becomes clear that each of them faces a personal winter, living a life frozen in place. Richard is a professor who believes the great passions of his life have come and gone. He maintains strict order to keep his regrets under control. Lucia, despite the struggles and disappointments she endured in her native Chile, still searches for happiness in the unlikeliest of places. Evelyn is a refugee from the violence in Guatemala, where she was robbed of family and future. Together this trio discovers, as Albert Camus wrote, an “invincible summer” within that slowly melts the frost enshrouding their lives and opens them to renewed hope and love. This is a beautiful story that will see you through all the seasons to come. - Michael T.

When asked, Haris Abadi describes himself as an Iraqi and an American. He means that he was born in Iraq but traded his first identity for American citizenship after working as an interpreter for the occupying American forces. Somewhere in the transaction, the two loyalties canceled each other out and Haris lost track of himself. As Dark at the Crossing (Knopf) opens, Haris is in Antep, Turkey (“a city with two names and three meanings”), hoping to regain a sense of purpose by joining the struggle against the al-Assad regime in Syria. But the border is closed, and Elliot Ackerman’s powerful and poignant second novel follows his protagonist’s efforts to find a way across. As Haris faces the disappearance of his fixer; is betrayed, robbed, and beaten by a guide; and tours the Syrian ward of the local hospital, where both the dying and the dead are stashed in the morgue, his experiences give a close, yet panoramic view of the Syrian civil war and its regional fallout. At the same time, Haris’ recurrent flashbacks of the interrogations and searches he participated in with the Americans in Iraq reflect that he is also stuck at an internal psychological border. So, too, is Daphne, a Syrian refugee Haris befriends. Certain that her daughter is still alive, she wants to return to Aleppo and find her. Incredibly, though the conflict has left Daphne with nothing, she feels that “war can be a blessing… If you’re trapped, its destruction can free you.” Ackerman, a former Marine who served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and has covered Syria since 2013, is unflinching in his depiction of what war can do. - Laurie G.

Two years after the magical Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights, set in Fairyland, Salman Rushdie is back with another, much more realistic novel. The Golden House (@randomhouse) begins on the day of Barack Obama’s inauguration, when an uncrowned seventy- something king, who calls himself Nero Golden, arrives in New York from a faraway country. With his three motherless sons, Nero takes possession of the palace he would call his home. Having arrived under mysterious circumstances, the family also assumes new identities. They take Roman names, trying to reinvent themselves and keep their past hidden, all the while battling their own demons. The youngest son, D, is conflicted over his sexual identity; Apu longs to go back home; and Petya develops agoraphobia. The Goldens’ story is told by their neighbor, René, who becomes fascinated with the family and the various goings-on surrounding them. He gets pulled into their life of mystery, money, intrigue, drama, and crime. Then it all abruptly ends eight years later with the election of “The Joker” as president. Exploring the nature of good and evil and our capacity to change and adapt, Rushdie has loaded this novel with parallels between our world and the one the Goldens live in. “Clowns become kings, old crowns lie in the gutter. Things change. It’s the way of the world.” - Marija D.

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IN THE MIDST OF WINTER Isabel Allende

MY RATING ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️▫️ PUBLISHER Simon and Schuster Audio PUBLISHED November 2, 2017

A relevant and lyrical novel that runs the gamut of emotions, blending humor, tragedy, depression and love.

SUMMARY IN THE MIDST OF WINTER begins with a minor traffic accident on a snowy morning in Brooklyn. Richard Bowmaster, a depressed 60-year-old human rights professor slides on the snow into the rear a white Lexus causing some minor damage. The Lexus is driven by Evelyn Ortega, a young undocumented Guatemala immigrant who works as a nanny for a New York gangster. She immediately drives off, as Richard throw his business card through her window. The accident takes a serious turn when Evelyn shows up on Richard’s doorstep later that evening in immense distress and uncommunicative. Not knowing what to do, Richard calls his downstairs tenant Lucia Maraz, a 62-year-old visiting professor from Chile, for help. After several hours, Richard and Lucia are finally able to understand the full extent of Evelyn’s plight regarding the accident and they agree to help her. Later the next day the three travel together to upstate New York in an attempt to resolve Evelyn’s issue. During this trip the story branches into the backstories for each of three protagonists. The backstories, a significant part of the novel takes the reader to Guatemala, Chile and Brazil. Ultimately, a charming unexpected love story develops between Richard and Lucia, who both had given up on ever finding love again.

REVIEW ISABEL ALLENDE has artfully woven a lyrical novel running the gamut of emotions. This spellbinding novel creatively blends humor, tragedy, depression and love. It takes us places we have never been and shows us things we have never seen. The backstories for each of the three protagonists are tragic, yet here they are in New York trudging though the snow and helping a stranger. The novel is informative and revealing, and at the same time gives us hope, that after the worst thing that could ever happen to you happens, good may ultimately follow, in the most unexpected circumstances.

Lucia’s character was adorable and steals the show, she is feisty and full spunk. She sums up this amazing story when she tells Richard, “Enough wallowing in the sorrows of the past. The only cure for so much misfortune is love.” Richard, on the other hand, adds much levity to the story by his eccentricities and his stomach problems. Evelyn, is in a word, resilient. She has been through more than we can imagine and she still manages to show care and compassion for others. All three diverse characters uniquely come together to form the perfect ensemble in a most relevant book.

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” - Albert Camus

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In the Midst of Winter

In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende

New York Times and worldwide bestselling “dazzling storyteller” (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil. In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident—which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster—a 60-year-old human rights scholar—hits the car of Evelyn Ortega—a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala—in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an unforeseen and far more serious turn when Evelyn turns up at the professor’s house seeking help. At a loss, the professor asks his tenant Lucia Maraz—a 62-year-old lecturer from Chile—for her advice. These three very different people are brought together in a mesmerizing story that moves from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil, sparking the beginning of a long overdue love story between Richard and Lucia. Exploring the timely issues of human rights and the plight of immigrants and refugees, the book recalls Allende’s landmark novel The House of the Spirits in the way it embraces the cause of “humanity, and it does so with passion, humor, and wisdom that transcend politics” (Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post). In the Midst of Winter will stay with you long after you turn the final page.

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Judge a book by its cover! What do you think of this cover art?!. . With the snow outside, this seems like the perfect read! Thank you to @simonandschuster for sending me a copy of this stunning tale!. . In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident—which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster—a 60-year-old human rights scholar—hits the car of Evelyn Ortega—a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala—in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an unforeseen and far more serious turn when Evelyn turns up at the professor’s house seeking help. At a loss, the professor asks his tenant Lucia Maraz—a 62-year-old lecturer from Chile—for her advice. These three very different people are brought together in a mesmerizing story that moves from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil, sparking the beginning of a long overdue love story between Richard and Lucia.  . Exploring the timely issues of human rights and the plight of immigrants and refugees, the book recalls Allende’s landmark novel The House of the Spirits in the way it embraces the cause of “humanity, and it does so with passion, humor, and wisdom that transcend politics” (Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post). In the Midst of Winter will stay with you long after you turn the final page.

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. 𝐈𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐲 𝐈𝐬𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞 . Richard Bowmaster adalah dosen gaek yg suka kagok. Krn kelewat mencemaskan kucingnya, tanpa sadar dia menabrak sebuah mobil Lexus yg dikendarai Evelyn, gadis imigran yg bekerja sbg pengasuh pd org kaya. Evelyn panik dan tidak berani pulang, jd Richard yg kebingungan minta tolong pd Lucia Maraz, penyewa tempatnya yg dianggapnya bisa mengerti bahasa Spanyol Evelyn. . Ternyata dari kebersamaan mrk tsb mrk saling membuka masa lalu mrk masing². Yg terkelam adalah masa lalu Evelyn di Guatemala. Lucia jg mengalami masa² berat sbg pelarian dari negeri Chili saat dikuasai junta militer dan dirinya dianggap simpatisan pemerintahan sosialis sblmnya. Richard pun tidak kalah pahitnya sbg putra beretnis Yahudi yg pernah menikahi putri Latin dan berakhir tragis. . Dan ternyata di mobil tsb ada sesosok mayat yg dikenali sbg terapis fisik anak majikan Evelyn. Akhirnya dlm perjalanan musim dingin ini mrk bahu-membahu sekaligus bertukar cerita. Buku ini adalah buku ke-4 author yg saya baca. Dan spt biasanya saya selalu terpukau dgn gaya cerita author. Di awal² ceritanya biasa² saja, tapi makin ke belakang semakin menarik ceritanya. . Saya paling terpikat oleh kisah masa lalu Evelyn, krn dialah yg paling ngenes dan gak terbayangkan kuatnya tubuh rapuhnya utk menjalani kekerasan hidup satu per satu. Richard dan Lucia adalah pasangan yg tidak menduga akan mendptkan rahmat dari perjalanan mendebarkan tsb. Mrk adalah tipe individu yg sedang memulihkan diri mrk dan saya suka krn mrk bs saling mengisi dan memperbaiki satu sama lain. Gak nyesel dah baca buku ini krn kita makin kaya dgn kultur etnis masing². . . . #BIPOC #BIPOCauthors #ReadAlongwithYun #IsabelAllende #gramediadigital #KatBooksCollection #romancestagram #romance #chicklit #stayhome #bookstagrammerindonesia #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookstagramfeature #booksofinstragram #readingchallenge #bacaituseru #pecandubuku #ayomembaca https://www.instagram.com/p/CPxGg5ODYL-/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Recensione "Oltre l'inverno" di Isabel ALLENDE

Recensione "Oltre l'inverno" di #IsabelALLENDE #Feltrinelli Amazon -> https://amzn.to/2Yosmde

Brooklyn, ai giorni nostri. Durante una tempesta di neve, Richard Bowmaster, professore universitario spigoloso e riservato, tampona la macchina di Evelyn Ortega, una giovane donna emigrata illegalmente dal Guatemala. Quello che sembra solo un banale incidente prende tutt’altra piega quando Evelyn si presenta a casa del professore per chiedere aiuto. Smarrito, Richard si rivolge alla vicina, che…

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10 Gennaio - "OLTRE L'INVERNO" Ddi Isabel Allende

10 Gennaio - "OLTRE L'INVERNO" Ddi Isabel Allende Link Amazon.it https://amzn.to/2GoVSrT Link Amazon.com https://amzn.to/2RaraHj

Titolo: Oltre l’inverno Autore: Isabel Allende Genere: Narrativa Casa Editrice: Feltrinelli Editore Lunghezza: 304 pagine Prezzo: Ebook € 6,99 – Cartaceo € 8,41 Data di pubblicazione: 10 Gennaio 2019

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W samym środku zimy Isabel Allende

W samym środku zimy Isabel Allende

Nowa powieść supergwiazdy literatury iberoamerykańskiej. Pierwszy nakład w Hiszpanii – 300 tys.

W samym środku brooklyńskiej śnieżycy sześćdziesięcioletni Richard Bowmaster, profesor uniwersytecki, wjeżdża w bagażnik samochodu Evelyn Ortegi, młodej nielegalnej imigrantki z Gwatemali. To, co z początku wydawało się zaledwie drobnym wypadkiem, staje się czymś o…

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Buongiorno lettori! Come state? Pronti per questo sabato di relax? Io sono ancora a riposo forzato e ne sto approfittando per leggere più che posso 😉 Oggi vi mosto uno degli ultimi arrivati in libreria: "Oltre l'inverno". Libro che mi è stato inviato dalla mondadori! - - Brooklyn, ai giorni nostri. Durante una tempesta di neve, Richard Bowmaster, professore universitario spigoloso e riservato, tampona la macchina di Evelyn Ortega, una giovane donna emigrata illegalmente dal Guatemala. Quello che sembra solo un banale incidente prende tutt'altra piega quando Evelyn si presenta a casa del professore per chiedere aiuto. Smarrito, Richard si rivolge alla vicina, che conosce a malapena, Lucia Maraz, una matura donna cilena con una vita complicata alle spalle. Lucia, Evelyn e Richard, tre persone molto diverse tra loro, si ritrovano coinvolte in un thriller dalle conseguenze imprevedibili. Tre destini che Isabel Allende incrocia per dare vita a un romanzo molto attuale sull'emigrazione e l'identità americana, le seconde opportunità e la speranza che, oltre l'inverno, ci aspetti sempre un'invincibile estate. - Qualcuno di voi l'ha letto? - #cheserie #socialmedia #followmenow #followme #instagood #instalike #instablogger #instabook #instalibri #blogger #oltrelinverno #isabelleallende #libridaleggere #libri #librichepassione #libriconsigliati #book #bookphotography #bookblogger #booklover #bookstagram #bookaddict #newbook #booktuber #ilovebooks (presso Palermo, Italy)

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Therapist recounts abuse, survival in 'The Only Girl in the World&rsquo...

"The Only Girl in the World," Maude Julien

Posted: 12:00 a.m. Saturday, December 23, 2017

Maude Julien's "The Only Girl in the World" is a disturbing, engrossing memoir of a bizarre, highly violent youth.

Psychotherapist Julien makes her literary debut with a gripping chronicle of growing up imprisoned and tormented by her parents. Isolated on a property not far from Dunkirk, Julien was raised to become a "superior being," destined to "control the weak-minded and bring about the great regeneration of the universe." Her father, a paranoid, narcissistic conspiracy theorist, "a Grand Master of Freemasonry and a great knight of a secret order," had adopted and then married Julien's mother, who assisted in the demanding, cruel regimen that he designed to shape their daughter's body and head. They locked her in a dank, rat-infested cellar, forbidding her to move (her mother sewed bells inside her sweater to monitor disobedience). They also attempted to quash any signs of compassion or love; Julien had to cage her gentle dog daily, and when her beloved horse died, they made her dig a hole to bury it. Her father bought the horse not as a pet for Julien but to ensure she learned to ride: " just like swimming, riding will be quite useful if I need to escape" persecution and "to have the ability to get a job with a circus in case I must hide or go undercover at some stage." They forced her to bathe in their own dirty bathwater: "an honour," her father said, that "allows you to benefit from my energies when they enter your body." They refused to summon a doctor when she was sick, and they dismissed her being mistreated by their lecherous handyman. Finally, when Julien was a teenager, a sort, observant music teacher assessed the situation and contrived to give her lessons at his own studio; he soon hired her to work for him part-time and introduced her to a young man who married her. Although she escaped physically, Julien admits, "being outside was not enough to make me free." Years of therapy led her to become a therapist herself.

This memoir is a startling testament of survival.

A warm winter romance

Thrown together by a Brooklyn blizzard, two NYU professors and a Guatemalan nanny find themselves with a body to dispose of in Isabel Allende's "In the Midst of Winter."

"Blessed with the stoic character of her people, accustomed as they are to earthquakes, floods, occasional tsunamis, and political cataclysm," 61 year-old Chilean academic Lucia Maraz is nonetheless a bit freaked out with a snowstorm so acute that it's reported on television "in the solemn tone usually reserved for news about terrorism in far-off nations." Her spouse and boss, the tightly wound Richard Bowmaster, lives right upstairs with his four cats, but he rebuffs her offer of soup and business. Too bad: She might have a crush on him. Input Evelyn Ortega, a diminutive young woman from Guatemala Richard matches when he skids into her Lexus on the iced-over streets. Evelyn's hysterical response to the fender bender seems crazily out of proportion when she shows up on his doorstep that night, and he's Lucia come up to help him understand why she is so upset. The Lexus, it turns out, belongs to her volatile, violent employer ... and there is a corpse in the now-unlatchable trunk. Once Lucia gradually pieces together Evelyn's story -- she was smuggled north with a coyote after barely surviving gang violence that killed both of her sisters -- the two professors decide to help her, and the plan they come up with is straight out of a telenovela. While that's getting underway, Allende ("The Japanese Lover," 2015) fills in the dark and complex histories of Richard and Lucia, who have suffered planting losses. The horrors of Evelyn's past have left her mute; Richard is a complete nervous wreck; Lucia fears there is not any better love coming her way compared to that of her Chihuahua, Marcelo.

This winter's tale has something to melt every frozen heart.

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