La Leyenda del volcán / Bárbara Gil.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gil, Bárbara, 1980- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Women immigrants--Costa Rica--Turrialba (Canton)--19th century--Fiction.

Women immigrants.

Coffee plantations--Costa Rica--Turrialba (Canton)--19th century--Fiction.

Coffee plantations.

Alcoholics--Costa Rica--Turrialba (Canton)--19th century--Fiction.

Alcoholics.

Inheritance and succession--Costa Rica--Turrialba (Canton)--19th century--Fiction.

Inheritance and succession.

Volcanoes--Costa Rica--Turrialba (Canton)--Folklore--19th century--Fiction.

Volcanoes.

Genre:

Historical fiction.

Road fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

456 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Primera edición.

Place of Publication:

Barcelona, España / Spain : Plaza Janés (Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial), mayo de 2023.

Language Note:

En español = in Spanish.

Summary:

"¿Puede una sola mujer cambiar el curso de la historia? Costa Rica, diciembre de 1883. Aitana Ugarte, una joven bilbaína, desembarca en Puerto Limón para casarse por matrimonio concertado con un terrateniente de sesenta años, dueño de un cafetal en las prósperas Tierras Altas de Turrialba, a las faldas de un volcán legendario sobre el cual circula una misteriosa leyenda. Pero cuando llega a la hacienda se encuentra una tierra devastada, a su marido recién fallecido y al hijo de este, un hombre alcohólico, a punto de perder la hacienda por jugar a los dados. Aitana tendrá que enfrentarse a innumerables obstáculos para hacerse con su herencia, echar raíces en un territorio extraño y forjar su propio destino." -- page 4 of the cover

"Can a single woman change the course of history? Costa Rica, December 1883. Aitana Ugarte, a young woman from Bilbao, disembarks in Puerto Limón to marry by arranged marriage a sixty-year-old landowner, owner of a coffee plantation in the prosperous Turrialba Highlands, at the foot of a legendary volcano which a mysterious legend circulates about. But when she arrives at the ranch she finds a devastated land, her recently deceased husband and his son, an alcoholic man, about to lose the ranch for playing dice. Aitana will have to face countless obstacles to gain her inheritance, put down roots in a strange land, and forge her own destiny." -- cataloger's translation

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9788401030543

8401030544

OCLC:

1378930861