description: One snowy night in New York City, a successful, solitary goldsmith reflects on his life, and his unrealiable memories intertwine and collide. Journeying to the village in Spain where he grew up, he hopes with some trepidation that he will encounter Celia, "the Black Widow", a beautiful and mysterious friend of his mother with whom he had a short and passionate affair when he was a teenager. But instead he meets a young woman who opens doors into an unimagined world, and takes him back in time.The Goldsmith's Secret is a remarkable story of a love trapped between two parallel times, set in Spain in the 1950's, 1970's and in the last year of the twentieth century.In beautifully economical prose, and with a structure as intricate and refined as a bevelled jewel, The Goldsmith's Secret is alight with intense nostalgia, memories and desires.Elia Barceló has come to be recognized across Europe as a truly original voice, and her books as poetic works of great subtlety.
language: Spanish; Castilian
title: El secreto del orfebre
titlecomplete: El secreto del orfebre
genres: Time Travel, Spain, Fantasy, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Magical Realism, Romance, Fiction, Science Fiction, Spanish Literature
ratings_count: 1083
publisher: Punto de Lectura S.L.