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    The Wind from the East

    A Novel

    Author Almudena Grandes
    Translated by Sonia Soto
    Hardcover
    $27.95 US
    Seven Stories Press
    On sale May 01, 2007 | 544 Pages | 9781583227466
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    Internationally celebrated author Almudena Grandes has produced her finest work yet with The Wind from the East, a blend of two narratives set alternately in Madrid and an Andalusian town by the sea. Sara Gómes Morales, given up at birth to be raised by her wealthy godmother, is betrayed on her sixteenth birthday when she is forced to leave her godmother’s home and return to live in poverty with her estranged parents. Tortured by resentment and the loneliness of belonging to neither place, he finds solace as an adult only when she moves to the coastal town.

    Parallel to Sara’s story is the story of Juan and Damian Olmedo, brothers in love with the same woman. One night an argument incited by jealousy leads Damian to stumble down a flight of stairs and fall to his death. Suspected of murdering his younger brother, Juan flees to the same village that served as Sara’s escape. Deftly engaging, The Wind from the East is an epic tale of love and redemption. Almudena Grandes’ writing has been compared to the work of classic and contemporary voices such as the Brontë sisters and Isabel Allende.
    © Claudia Smith
    ALMUDENA GRANDES’s Las Edades de Lulu (The Ages of Lulu) won the Sonrisa Vertical Prize for erotic fiction and was made into a film starring Javier Bardem. Grandes’s novel Los Aires Difíciles debuted in the number one spot on Spanish bestseller lists when it was published in 2002, and remained on the lists for five months. Her books have been translated into over twenty languages. View titles by Almudena Grandes
    “In her fifth novel, Grandes reaches the peak of her powers. This magnificent saga of shipwrecked lives grips from the first sentence and weaves parallel intrigues of memory and survival, money and revenge. . . . Here, she has perfected her ability to leap between stories and epochs.” –Elizabeth Nash, The Independent [London]
    “This novel confirms Almudena Grandes as one of Spain's leading writers. She reveals herself a powerfully perceptive writer who understands the subtleties of human nature . . . this is a hugely intelligent, wise novel. . . . It is not until the last pages that the reader is released from suspense and discovers the final effect of the east wind.” –Sunday Telegraph
    “The Wind from the East will sweep the reader away with its literary force, rhythm, and narrative structure, drawing you in with a distillation of human passions that are almost always in conflict with each other.” –The European

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    Internationally celebrated author Almudena Grandes has produced her finest work yet with The Wind from the East, a blend of two narratives set alternately in Madrid and an Andalusian town by the sea. Sara Gómes Morales, given up at birth to be raised by her wealthy godmother, is betrayed on her sixteenth birthday when she is forced to leave her godmother’s home and return to live in poverty with her estranged parents. Tortured by resentment and the loneliness of belonging to neither place, he finds solace as an adult only when she moves to the coastal town.

    Parallel to Sara’s story is the story of Juan and Damian Olmedo, brothers in love with the same woman. One night an argument incited by jealousy leads Damian to stumble down a flight of stairs and fall to his death. Suspected of murdering his younger brother, Juan flees to the same village that served as Sara’s escape. Deftly engaging, The Wind from the East is an epic tale of love and redemption. Almudena Grandes’ writing has been compared to the work of classic and contemporary voices such as the Brontë sisters and Isabel Allende.

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    © Claudia Smith
    ALMUDENA GRANDES’s Las Edades de Lulu (The Ages of Lulu) won the Sonrisa Vertical Prize for erotic fiction and was made into a film starring Javier Bardem. Grandes’s novel Los Aires Difíciles debuted in the number one spot on Spanish bestseller lists when it was published in 2002, and remained on the lists for five months. Her books have been translated into over twenty languages. View titles by Almudena Grandes

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    “In her fifth novel, Grandes reaches the peak of her powers. This magnificent saga of shipwrecked lives grips from the first sentence and weaves parallel intrigues of memory and survival, money and revenge. . . . Here, she has perfected her ability to leap between stories and epochs.” –Elizabeth Nash, The Independent [London]
    “This novel confirms Almudena Grandes as one of Spain's leading writers. She reveals herself a powerfully perceptive writer who understands the subtleties of human nature . . . this is a hugely intelligent, wise novel. . . . It is not until the last pages that the reader is released from suspense and discovers the final effect of the east wind.” –Sunday Telegraph
    “The Wind from the East will sweep the reader away with its literary force, rhythm, and narrative structure, drawing you in with a distillation of human passions that are almost always in conflict with each other.” –The European

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