Aventura, amor y guerra en el tablero de ajedrez del cruento siglo XX: la novela m�s personal de la autora de La Tabla Esmeralda. En un pueblo de la monta�a, donde los d�as suceden unos iguales a otros, Lena y Guill�n, hermanastros, viven una vida pobre pero tranquila. El destino de Guill�n es ser pastor y el de Lena, como el de todas las mujeres de su �poca, formar una familia. Pero algo inesperado sucede: un accidente de avi�n en la monta�a alterar� sus vidas para siempre. Dos aviadores franceses han ...
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Aventura, amor y guerra en el tablero de ajedrez del cruento siglo XX: la novela m�s personal de la autora de La Tabla Esmeralda. En un pueblo de la monta�a, donde los d�as suceden unos iguales a otros, Lena y Guill�n, hermanastros, viven una vida pobre pero tranquila. El destino de Guill�n es ser pastor y el de Lena, como el de todas las mujeres de su �poca, formar una familia. Pero algo inesperado sucede: un accidente de avi�n en la monta�a alterar� sus vidas para siempre. Dos aviadores franceses han perdido la vida y Guill�n es el �nico que consigue encontrar el lugar donde descansan sus restos. La viuda del piloto, la condesa �rsula Zalesca, aparece a las pocas semanas con una propuesta inaudita: llevarse a Guill�n a Francia y educarlo como un hijo. Alguien tiene que llevar la f�brica de aviones de su difunto marido y cree que el joven pastor es el indicado. As� que Guill�n viaja a Lyon, estudia, aprende, se empapa de unas riquezas con las que no hab�a podido so�ar, y se convierte en ingeniero. Pero no olvida a Lena, y mantienen una relaci�n epistolar durante esos a�os. A lo largo de sus vidas, Lena y Guill�n, Guill�n y Lena, cruzar�n sus caminos: en la guerra civil espa�ola, en la Europa de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en el inh�spito Frente ruso, en la Varsovia asolada por los nazis, en el c�lido y exuberante T�nger de los a�os cuarenta. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Adventure, love, and war in the chess board of the bloody 20th century: the most personal novel by the author of La Tabla Esmeralda. In a mountain village, where each day is the same as the last, step-siblings Lena and Guill�n, live a poor but tranquil life. Guill�n's destiny is to be a shepherd, and Lena's, like all women of her time, is to form a family. But something unexpected happens: a plane accident in the mountain alters their lives forever. Two French aviators have lost their lives, and Guill�n is the only one who manages to find where their remains have come to rest. The pilot's widow, Countess �rsula Zalesca, appears just a few weeks later with an unheard-of proposal: take Guill�n to France and bring him up as a son. Someone must keep up with her deceased husband's plane factory, and she believes that the young shepherd is just the person. So Guill�n travels to Lyon, where he studies, learns, soaks up more riches than he could ever have dreamed about, and becomes an engineer. But he doesn't forget about Lena, and they continue an epistolary relationship throughout all those years. Throughout their lives, Lena and Guill�n, Guill�n and Lena, continue to cross paths: in the Spanish civil war, in the Europe of the Second World War, in the inhospitable Eastern Front, in the Warsaw devastated by the Nazis, in the lush Tangier of the 1940s.
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