The rare birds and their synergies to implode the world. Because in the eccentricities there is that naked truth, without restrictions or trompe l'oeils. A vision of Shakespeare as taken from the main focus to trace the impossible line of anecdotes, of the experiences that masterpieces or wars can cause, according to the soul of the protagonists of each historical scene. The quintessential tragicomedy seen from the disturbing feeling that everything can still happen despite having already been written.
A great novel by Maggie O'Farrell which comes to mark this Irish author as a surprising heir to that misty and fascinating literature of her island. Of course, the particular circumstances of the author are those that to a greater extent set a rapturous capacity to always tell from new angles. Privileged points of the observer writer where the course of events are always dilemmas loaded with intense aromas of farewells, great changes, abandonments or resignations.
Synopsis
Agnes, a peculiar girl who seems to be accountable to no one and who is capable of creating mysterious remedies with simple combinations of plants, is the talk of Stratford, a small town in England. When she meets a young Latin tutor just as extraordinary as she is, she quickly realizes that they are called to form a family. But his marriage will be put to the test, first by his relatives and then by an unexpected misfortune.
Starting from the family history of Shakespeare, Maggie O'Farrell travels between fiction and reality to trace a hypnotic recreation of the event that inspired one of the most famous literary works of all time. The author, far from focusing solely on known events, tenderly vindicates the unforgettable figures that inhabit the margins of history and delves into the small great questions of any existence: family life, affection, pain and loss. The result is a prodigious novel that has garnered enormous international success and confirms O'Farrell as one of the brightest voices in English literature today.
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