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Author:
Hernandez, Monica, author.
Title:
Las perlas malditas del almirante / Mónica Hernández.
Edition:
Primera edición impresa en México: abril de 2020
Publisher:
Editorial Planeta Mexicana :
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
313 pages ; 23 cm
Subject:
Blessing and cursing--Fiction.
Earrings--Fiction.
Spanish language materials.
Historical fiction.
Other Authors:
Planeta (Firm : Mexico City, Mexico), publisher.
Other Titles:
Admiral's cursed pearls Spanish
Summary:
Roma, 1672. Luis XIV obsequia a su amante, Marie Mancini, unos pendientes rematados por unas hermosas y enormes perlas. La joven belleza está lista para ser inmortalizada en un óleo, sin imaginar que las exuberantes perlas pertenecieron alguna vez a Cristóbal Colón y, mucho menos, que a partir de entonces su destino estará marcado también por el infortunio que arrastró al navegante hasta su trágica muerte. Desde la Florencia de los Medici, pasando por la guerra de los Treinta Años, la Inglaterra revolucionaria de Cromwell y la Francia del Rey Sol, hasta el derrocamiento de Alfonso XIII de España, más de quinientos años de historia se entrelazan cuando las joyas pasan de una corte a otra, adornando el rostro de reinas, princesas y cortesanas de toda Europa que, sin saberlo, se suman a una maldición que se perpetúa. ¿Será Alix, una joven que trabaja en una casa de subastas en Ginebra, capaz de detener la maldición cuando las perlas lleguen a ella en pleno siglo XX? -- page 4 of cover
Rome, 1672. Louis XIV gives his lover, Marie Mancini, earrings topped by beautiful and huge pearls. The young beauty is ready to be immortalized in an oil painting, without imagining that the exuberant pearls once belonged to Christopher Columbus and, much less, that from then on his destiny will also be marked by the misfortune that dragged the navigator to his tragic death. From the Florence of the Medici, through the Thirty Years' War, the revolutionary England of Cromwell and the France of the Sun King, to the overthrow of Alfonso XIII of Spain, more than five hundred years of history are intertwined when the jewels pass from one court to another, adorning the faces of queens, princesses and courtesans from all over Europe who, unknowingly, add to a perpetual curse. Will Alix, a young woman who works in an auction house in Geneva, be able to stop the curse when the pearls arrive at her in the middle of the 20th century? - page 4 of cover
ISBN:
6070767438
9786070767432
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1198237465
Locations:
BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

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