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7098221A Bookseller in Madridhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/a-bookseller-in-madrid-9781400347469/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/6658442/image.jpg?v=638792662960630000513513MXNHarper MuseInStock/Audiolibros/<p><strong>How can the words of the past help heal the horror of the present?</strong></p><p>For as long as she can remember, Barbara Spiel has always found solace in books. Born in Germany and having come of age in a tumultuous era, she flees her home country as the Nazis rise to power in the early 1930s. Her destination? Madrid. There shes determined to realize her long-held dream of opening a bookshop and creating a safe haven for young idealists and independent thinkers to come together to transform the world.</p><p>Yet Spain isnt immune from its own troubles. The winds of change are blowing through both city and countryside, and its impossible to predict what will happen. When the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War puts Barbara and everyone around her in peril--including the Spanish Socialist parliamentarian shes fallen deeply in love with--the terror and hatred seem all too familiar. Its like Germany all over again, only with its own cast of extremist characters.</p><p>Hounded simultaneously by Stalinist checas, Francoist Facists, and the German Gestapo, Barbara fights to keep her bookstore the safe haven that shes always imagined it would be. But with war brewing both inside Spain and outside its borders throughout the entirety of Europe--and beyond--Barbara isnt sure who exactly she can trust, or if people really are who they claim to be.</p><p><strong>A story told with tremendous heart and astonishing historical accuracy, <em>A Bookseller in Madrid</em> is ultimately a story about dreams--dreaming with courage when nothing seems to make sense, and dreaming with hope when words printed on a page are all you can hold on to.</strong></p>...6765793A Bookseller in Madrid513513https://www.gandhi.com.mx/a-bookseller-in-madrid-9781400347469/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/6658442/image.jpg?v=638792662960630000InStockMXN99999PR_DIAudiolibro20259781400347469_W3siaWQiOiIwN2Q3MjNhZi02MWU0LTQ0NjMtYjAyNy03YmJiNjEzMDgxMGMiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjQ4MCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjAsInNlbGxpbmdQcmljZSI6NDgwLCJpbmNsdWRlc1RheCI6dHJ1ZSwicHJpY2VUeXBlIjoiV2hvbGVzYWxlIiwiY3VycmVuY3kiOiJNWE4iLCJmcm9tIjoiMjAyNC0xMi0wMVQwMDowMDowMFoiLCJyZWdpb24iOiJNWCIsImlzUHJlb3JkZXIiOnRydWUsImlzRWxpZ2libGVGb3JDcmVkaXRUcmlhbCI6dHJ1ZSwiY3JlZGl0UHVyY2hhc2VQcmljZSI6MX1d9781400347469_<p><strong>Books will always be a refuge.</strong></p><p><em>Madrid, 1934</em>. The winds of change are blowing in the Spain of the Second Republic when Bárbara, a young German woman who has managed to flee Berlin after the victory of the Nazi party in the elections, opens a small bookstore.</p><p>This becomes a place to dream of a free and hopeful future, but the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War threatens to destroy everything Barbara has built. It will be her love for letters and for a young Republican that keeps her clinging to a country that faces a spiral of hatred and terror that she knows all too well and that will force her to fight for her life once again.</p><p>An exciting and rigorously documented novel by one of the most translated and read Spanish authors in the world. This hopeful and inspiring story in the face of the horror of intolerance is, above all, an indisputable tribute to literature.</p>...(*_*)9781400347469_<p><strong>How can the words of the past help heal the horror of the present?</strong></p><p>For as long as she can remember, Barbara Spiel has always found solace in books. Born in Germany and having come of age in a tumultuous era, she flees her home country as the Nazis rise to power in the early 1930s. Her destination? Madrid. There shes determined to realize her long-held dream of opening a bookshop and creating a safe haven for young idealists and independent thinkers to come together to transform the world.</p><p>Yet Spain isnt immune from its own troubles. The winds of change are blowing through both city and countryside, and its impossible to predict what will happen. When the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War puts Barbara and everyone around her in peril--including the Spanish Socialist parliamentarian shes fallen deeply in love with--the terror and hatred seem all too familiar. Its like Germany all over again, only with its own cast of extremist characters.</p><p>Hounded simultaneously by Stalinist checas, Francoist Facists, and the German Gestapo, Barbara fights to keep her bookstore the safe haven that shes always imagined it would be. But with war brewing both inside Spain and outside its borders throughout the entirety of Europe--and beyond--Barbara isnt sure who exactly she can trust, or if people really are who they claim to be.</p><p><strong>A story told with tremendous heart and astonishing historical accuracy, <em>A Bookseller in Madrid</em> is ultimately a story about dreams--dreaming with courage when nothing seems to make sense, and dreaming with hope when words printed on a page are all you can hold on to.</strong></p>...9781400347469_Harper Museaudiolibro_9781400347469_9781400347469Mario EscobarInglésMéxico2025-07-01T00:00:00+00:00NoMINUTE2025-07-01T00:00:00+00:00Harper Muse