Titles:
- Robinson Girl
- El corazón de Hannah
- La gramática del amor
Robinson Girl
After her 18 th birthday party, Ona wakes up in an unknown beach. She thinks that someone is playing a practical joke on her and starts walking around the coast to see if someone can help her to find her way back home. But she discovers that she is in a desert island. She soon realizes that there are other inhabitants on the island, like Domen, a young boy who helps her discover the secrets of the island and falls in love with her. Together with him and with the help of the ancient man of the butterflies, Ona discovers an interior lake in a cave. There, she gets to know the terrifying truth and why she is on this mysterious island between heaven and hell.
This is a shocking novel about love and loneliness with constant plot twists and a surprising ending!
Spain : Montena, November 2013 (Premio Jaén de narrativa juvenile)
El corazón de Hannah (Hannah’s heart)
Hannah Schwartz is a girl who lives in a amish community in Pensilvania, who live isolated in an rural environment following rules of the XVII century. On Hannah’s 16th birthday her parents paint the door of the house in blue to indicate that there lives a girl in age to be married. But things take another course when a stranger arrives at the village.
Daniel is a young talented photographer from Seattle , whose dream is to work for a New York magazine. His realizing a reportage about the amish for a students review and surprisingly the council of the elder let him in, in order to give a better image from the community. Daniel will live with the amish for some weeks, following their habits.
From the first moment Daniel and Hannah fall in love. He takes a lot of photographs from her and together they listen to the love songs of all the times. When Hannah’s family discovers this relationship, Daniel has to leave. But Hannah decides to escape and follow him to New York to live their love.
Spain : La Galera, 2012
La gramática del amor (The grammar of love)
After her parents’ divorce, Irene is sent to a boarding school in southern England, on the edge of a cliff. There, she will have her heart broken for the first time, and at the same time she will have an unexpected mentor: Peter Hughes, the school’s strictest professor, offers to teach her the “grammar of love” through seven great novels of the genre. Each Wednesday, Irene will comment in his office the week’s reading and learn vital lessons from classics such as Goethe and Jane Austen as well as modern authors like Garcia Márquez and Murakami. While the student is falling in love with her distant teacher, a silent suitor secretly aspires to win her heart. But before making a decision, Irene will have to learn the seven secrets of the grammar of love…
Spain: La Galera (Spanish and Catalan), 2011; Brazil: Rocco; Italy: Fanucci; Korea: Randomhouse; China: Azoth Books (traditional), Shanghai 99 Readers Culture (simplified)
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