La Templanza (Spanish Edition) - (Atria Espanol) by Maria Duenas (Paperback)

About the Book

Una nueva y magnaifica novela ambientada en los aanos 1860 en el Ciudad de Maexico, La Habana y Espaana sobre un hombre hecho a sai mismo que pierde su fortuna de la noche a la maanana pero encuentra su destino mientras trabaja para restaurar un antiguo vianedo a su antiguo esplendor y ganarse el amor de los combativos viuda que alguna vez fue dueana de la propiedad.

Book Synopsis

The New York Times bestselling author of The Time in Between returns with a magnificent new novel set in 1860s Mexico City, Havana, and Spain about a self-made man who loses his fortune overnight but finds his destiny as he works to restore a legendary vineyard to its former glory, and to win the love of the combative widow who once owned the property.

Now available in Spanish.

Mauro Larrea sees the fortune that he had built after years of hardship and toil come crashing down on the heels of a calamitous event. Swamped by debts and uncertainty, he gambles the last of his last money in a daring move that offers him the opportunity to resuscitate his fortune. But when the unsettling Soledad Montalvo, wife of a London wine merchant, comes into his life, her passionate intensity lures him toward an unanticipated future.

La Templanza spans diverse worlds, from the young Mexican republic to magnificent colonial Havana; from the West Indies to the Jerez of the second half of the nineteenth-century, when its wine trade with England turned the Andalusian city into a legendary cosmopolitan enclave. A novel replete with glories and defeats, with silver mines, family intrigues, vineyards, and splendid places whose grandeur has faded in time, La Templanza is a story of resilience in the face of adversity, of a lifeline forever altered by the force of passion.

Review Quotes

"Evocative, tender, and lush; a wonderful experience of times and lives in turmoil."--Diana Gabaldon, #1 New York Times bestselling author

"María Dueñas is a true storyteller. She weaves a spell, conjuring the heat and the glamour, the hardship and the thrill of Morocco and Spain in the late 1930s."--Kate Morton, New York Times bestselling author

Praise for María Dueñas

"A wonderful novel, in the old and good tradition, with intrigue, love, mystery and tender, audacious and clean-cut characters."--Mario Vargas Llosa, recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature

About the Author

María Dueñas es doctora en filología inglesa. Tras dos décadas dedicada a la vida académica, irrumpe en 2009 en el mundo de la literatura con El tiempo entre costuras, a la que sigue en 2012 Misión olvido. Ambas novelas se han convertido en grandes bestsellers internacionales, con traducciones a 35 lenguas. La adaptación televisiva de El tiempo entre costuras logró un clamoroso éxito de audiencia y ha sido reconocida con numerosos galardones. La Templanza es su tercera novela. Para más información visita MariaDuenas.es.