The awakening of the twentieth century is probably one of the most literary stages of history in Europe, a continent that began the last century of the second millennium surrounded by constant evolution and a marked geopolitical and social upheaval. Modernity loomed on the horizon with industrialization, development, technology…, in the same way that dark omens loomed over a reality that announced wars and that periodically shook the population with disasters of various kinds.
Writing intrahistories in this phase of our civilization is tempting. And this is how Anne Jacobs understood it in La Villa de las Telas, a novel that is already beginning to be a literary phenomenon in many readers of today's Europe who like to look into that mirror of detail into the past.
Because this is what this novel is, the story of a family saga back in 1913, and of all that microcosm of characters that shelters the millenary German city of Ausburg. The usual paradoxes between the solace life of the wealthy classes and the relentless struggle of the underprivileged in search of some remnant of the future.
The jump between social classes and love like a runaway magnet that can end up magnetizing people from very different backgrounds. Betrayals and hopes, emotion in abundance for fate that can wait for so many characters so well painted by the author.
The Melzers, rich and powerful in the Germany of the moment, have their service personnel where Marie enters, a young woman without a family but a worker, and with a great desire to carve out a future for herself ...
Paul Melzer must take the baton of command of the powerful family. But in his current youth he already guesses that he does not have the gifts for that iron command over goods and people that should be assumed to be a fit heir.
Marie and Paul. Shelter of dreams of one and the other. The magnet can end up attracting them. Love is capricious ...
But the Melzers are not what they are thanks solely to work and effort to raise their name. Every family has its secrets. The bigger a house is, the larger its basement must be to be able to house unspeakable secrets ...
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