The heart has its reasons /
Duenas, Maria,
The heart has its reasons / María Dueñas ; translated by Elie Kerrigan. - Sydney : Macmillan, 2014. - 372 pages ; 24 cm.
"A talented college professor in Madrid, Blanca Perea seems to have it all. But her world is suddenly shattered when her husband of twenty years leaves her for another woman. Questioning the life she once had and whether she truly knows herself, Blanca resolves to change her surroundings. She accepts what looks like a boring research grant in California involving an exiled Spanish writer who died decades ago. Anxious to leave her own troubled life behind, she is gradually drawn into his haunted world, with its poignant loves and unfulfilled ambitions"--Amazon.com.
Translated from the Spanish.
9781742614021 1742614027 (paperback)
Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction.
College teachers--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Literature--Research--Fiction.
Life change events--Fiction.
Married women--Fiction.
Runaway husbands--Fiction.
Authors, Spanish--Fiction.
California--Fiction.
Barcelona (Spain)--Fiction.
Domestic fiction
PQ6704.U35 / M5713 2014
863.7
The heart has its reasons / María Dueñas ; translated by Elie Kerrigan. - Sydney : Macmillan, 2014. - 372 pages ; 24 cm.
"A talented college professor in Madrid, Blanca Perea seems to have it all. But her world is suddenly shattered when her husband of twenty years leaves her for another woman. Questioning the life she once had and whether she truly knows herself, Blanca resolves to change her surroundings. She accepts what looks like a boring research grant in California involving an exiled Spanish writer who died decades ago. Anxious to leave her own troubled life behind, she is gradually drawn into his haunted world, with its poignant loves and unfulfilled ambitions"--Amazon.com.
Translated from the Spanish.
9781742614021 1742614027 (paperback)
Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction.
College teachers--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Literature--Research--Fiction.
Life change events--Fiction.
Married women--Fiction.
Runaway husbands--Fiction.
Authors, Spanish--Fiction.
California--Fiction.
Barcelona (Spain)--Fiction.
Domestic fiction
PQ6704.U35 / M5713 2014
863.7
