Book description
One snowy night in New York City, a successful but solitary goldsmith
reflects on his life, and his unreliable memories intertwine and
collide. Returning to the village 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, before she rejected him. But
instead he meets a young woman who opens doors onto a strange world, and
takes him back in time. The Goldsmith's Secret is a remarkable novella
with a magical twist, of a love trapped between two parallel times, set
in Spain in the fifties, seventies, and in the last year of the
twentieth century. One snowy night in New York City, a successful but
solitary goldsmith reflects on his life, and his unreliable memories
intertwine and collide. Returning to the village 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, before she rejected
him. But instead he meets a young woman who opens doors onto a strange
world, and takes him back in time. The Goldsmith's Secret is a
remarkable novella with a magical twist, of a love trapped between two
parallel times, set in Spain in the fifties, seventies, and in the last
year of the twentieth century.
