The Heart Has Its Reasons: A Novel
By Maria Duenas
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A talented college professor in Madrid, Blanca Perea seems to have it all. But her world is suddenly shattered when her husband of twenty years leaves her for another woman. Questioning the life she once had and whether she truly knows herself, Blanca resolves to change her surroundings. She accepts what looks like a boring research grant in California involving an exiled Spanish writer who died decades ago. Anxious to leave her own troubled life behind, she is gradually drawn into his haunted world, with its poignant loves and unfulfilled ambitions.
But in delving into the past, Blanca finds herself simultaneously awakened to the present by Daniel Carter, a charismatic professor with crucial knowledge about the dead writer that he has never before revealed. Amid this web of passion, conflict, and hidden feelings, including her own, Blanca advances like an avid detective, refusing to quit, and ultimately discovers startling answers that resonate deeply in her own life.
Evocative, lyrical, and humorous, The Heart Has Its Reasons is a journey of the soul from the pangs of the past to the vibrant present. It is a story about the thrill of creating one’s life anew.
Maria Duenas
María Dueñas (Puertollano, Ciudad Real, 1964) es doctora en Filología Inglesa. Tras dos décadas dedicada a la vida académica, irrumpe en el mundo de la literatura en 2009 con El tiempo entre costuras, la novela que se convirtió en un fenómeno editorial y cuya adaptación televisiva de la mano de Antena 3 logró numerosos galardones y un espectacular éxito de audiencia. Sus obras posteriores, Misión Olvido (2012), La Templanza (2015), y Las hijas del Capitan (2018) continuaron cautivando por igual a lectores y crítica. Traducida a más de treinta y cinco lenguas y con millones de ejemplares vendidos en todo el mundo, María Dueñas se ha convertido en una de las autoras más estimadas tanto en nuestro país como en América Latina. Sira es su quinta novela.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5After almost half of it was consumed, thats the part where all parts fit into pieces. Its so slow-paced, but I still like it, a lot.