Todas Las Piezas Rotas / All the Broken Places

Despu s de impresionar a m s de once millones de lectores con la estremecedora historia de El ni o con el pijama de rayas, John Boyne regresa en Todas las piezas rotas al mundo de su novela m s famosa para contar qu ocurri con la familia del peque o Bruno al final de la guerra. En esta ocasi n, a trav s del viaje de Gretel, su hermana mayor, desde el Par s de 1946 hasta el Londres de hoy, en busca de un lugar en el que confiar el peso de su terrible pasado.

A punto de cumplir noventa y dos a os, Gretel Fernsby ha vivido durante d cadas en un piso de Winterville Court, un lujoso bloque de apartamentos con vistas a Hyde Park, donde lleva una vida desahogada y tranquila pese a una historia oscura e inquietante que no deja de atormentarla No habla con nadie de su huida de la Alemania nazi hace m s de siete d cadas en compa a de su madre, ni de la tr gica desaparici n de su hermano, ni mucho menos de su padre, comandante de uno de los campos de concentraci n m s notorios del Reich. Cuando el productor de cine Alex Darcy-Witt, un hombre dominante y abusivo, y su esposa Madelyn se mudan al piso de abajo, Gretel acaba haci ndose amiga de Henry, el hijo de nueve a os de la pareja, aunque su presencia le hace recordar antiguos sucesos que preferir a haber olvidado.

« Hasta qu punto la culpa de un padre monstruoso alcanza a sus hijos? La culpa y la complicidad tienen muchas caras. John Boyne es un maestro de la ficci n hist rica: es imposible estar preparado para la magnitud y el impacto emocional de esta novela. John Irving

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

"You can't prepare yourself for the magnitude and emotional impact of this powerful novel." --John Irving, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The World According to Garp

"Exceptional, layered and compelling...This book moves like a freight train." --Amy Bloom, New York Times bestselling author of In Love

From the New York Times bestselling author John Boyne, a devastating, beautiful story about a woman who must confront the sins of her own terrible past, and a present in which it is never too late for bravery.

Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet, comfortable life, despite her deeply disturbing, dark past. She doesn't talk about her escape from Nazi Germany at age 12. She doesn't talk about the grim post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn't talk about her father, who was the commandant of one of the Reich's most notorious extermination camps.

Then, a new family moves into the apartment below her. In spite of herself, Gretel can't help but begin a friendship with the little boy, Henry, though his presence brings back memories she would rather forget. One night, she witnesses a disturbing, violent argument between Henry's beautiful mother and his arrogant father, one that threatens Gretel's hard-won, self-contained existence.

All The Broken Places moves back and forth in time between Gretel's girlhood in Germany to present-day London as a woman whose life has been haunted by the past. Now, Gretel faces a similar crossroad to the one she encountered long ago. Back then, she denied her own complicity, but now, faced with a chance to interrogate her guilt, grief and remorse, she can choose to save a young boy. If she does, she will be forced to reveal the secrets she has spent a lifetime protecting. This time, she can make a different choice than before--whatever the cost to herself...."