“Our stories are our most valuable asset. They define us. They are our legacy.”
Edie Ayala is a baby boomer from a small logging town in British Columbia. As a girl, she once broke into a neighbour’s house to play on their typewriter. She was the creative fort-builder, the abandoned mine-shaft explorer and the tree climber. She has never lost this spirit of curiosity and the search for the small things that might change a day… or a life.
Just before Y2K, she made a trip to South America and it was a turning point. Married to a Chilean from the Atacama region, they decided to make Santiago, Chile their home and they’ve been there ever since. Their grown children are all settled in different cities in Canada and the UK.
Edie writes character-driven novels. Her first, South of Centre is a saga sent in nothern Chile in and around the time of the Pinochet regime. With all of its myths and superstitions, it seeks to get to the bottom of various tangled family relationships. The second Hard Bed Hotel is a humorous love story where confusion between the living and the dead takes you on an eventful romp through Santiago’s more ‘popular’ neighborhoods. Her third novel, Threads takes a hard look at the global business of fast fashion. Two women on opposite ends of the globe are connected through love and loss.
In the middle of the Atacama Desert there's a small lake that Chileans call The Eye of the Sea. Some say this lake is bottomless, and if you submerge the truth there, it will never be known. However, in the fullness of time, and by fate or accident, fragments float up to catch the light.
When a woman dies in her upscale apartment during Chile's 2019 social uprising, the truth is meant to be buried with her. However, a front-line activist stumbles upon her family's scandalous past and briefly considers exposing it. Instead he finds himself confronted by his own long-held beliefs and his role in the family's demise.
Elena could care less about Chile's inequities but Bladimir has ambitious plans to make the world a better place. While Elena is tormented by confused childhood memories, all she needs are the pills she buys on the street and perhaps a fleeting affair with a stranger. Bladimir, on the other hand, is deep into social activism with a boss who has a reputation as a political fixer. After a casual encounter at a park, Elena and Bladimir begin a game of cat and mouse.
When Bladimir suspects that his boss's motives are less for the greater good and more for self-gain, he becomes disillusioned and makes a move that could cost his life. By chance, he takes refuge with a family that is indirectly related to Elena and he uncovers secrets that pivot around her and Vicente, a disturbed old man who is known to them both. As Bladimir puts two and two together, a web of crime and politics that goes back decades comes to light.
Wrapped in the stories of people from contrasting socio-economic backgrounds, The Eye of the Sea points to what may have been the driving force behind Chile's violent uprisings.
The book is for readers who are curious about foreign affairs and diverse cultures and who are intrigued by clandestine networks that influence events.
Título : The Eye of the Sea
EAN : 9780988003293
Editorial : Stories with Character
El libro electrónico The Eye of the Sea está en formato ePub protegido por CARE
¿Quieres leer en un eReader de otra marca? Sigue nuestra guía.
Puede que no esté disponible para la venta en tu país, sino sólo para la venta desde una cuenta en Francia.
Si la redirección no se produce automáticamente, haz clic en este enlace.
Conectarme
Mi cuenta