Book description
A sweeping epic saga about the Spanish Civil War - the Spanish DR
ZHIVAGO. In the small town of Torrelodones on the outskirts of Madrid a
funeral is taking place. Julio Carrión González, a man of tremendous
wealth and influence in Madrid, has come home to be buried. But as the
family stand by the graveside, his son Alvaro notices the arrival of a
stranger - a young and attractive woman. No one appears to know who she
is, or why she is there. Alvaro's questions only deepen when the family
inherits an enormous amount of money that is a surprise even to them. In
his father's study Alvaro discovers an old folder with letters sent to
his father in Russia between 1941 and 1943, faded photos of people he
never met, and a locked grey metal box. The woman is Raquel Fernández
Perea, the daughter of Spaniards who fled during the Civil War. One
episode in her past has marked her for ever - the only time she saw her
grandfather cry. Her fate, and that of the family, now hangs on the
secrets of Julio's past. From the provincial heartlands of Spain to the
battlefields of Russia, The Frozen Heart is a mesmerising journey
through a war that tore families apart, fathers against sons, brothers
against brothers, wives against husbands. Against such a past, where do
faith and loyalty lie?
