Cruces. Historia de dos almas

Cruces es una novela doble, un misterio literario que entrelaza tres historias a lo largo de tres siglos, con manuscritos perdidos, amores imposibles y oscuros secretos. Todo comienza cuando un encuadernador rompe su promesa de no leer tres manuscritos tras la misteriosa muerte de la coleccionista que se los encargó. Al publicarlos como Cruces, se revelan tres relatos conectados: un poeta sin memoria atrapado en una villa inquietante, una intriga literaria en el París de entreguerras, y una leyenda que une el Pacífico del siglo XVIII con la Europa de 1940. Una historia sobre dos almas que se buscan, un asesino oculto y el poder eterno de las palabras. Una novela para leerse en dos direcciones, que fusiona historia, fantasía, amor y venganza.

Alex Landragin's Crossings is an unforgettable and explosive genre-bending debut-a novel in three parts, designed to be read in two different directions, spanning a hundred and fifty years and seven lifetimes. On the brink of the Nazi occupation of Paris, a German-Jewish bookbinder stumbles across a manuscript called Crossings. It has three narratives, each as unlikely as the next. And the narratives can be read one of two ways: either straight through or according to an alternate chapter sequence. The first story in Crossings is a never-before-seen ghost story by the poet Charles Baudelaire, penned for an illiterate girl. Next is a noir romance about an exiled man, modeled on Walter Benjamin, whose recurring nightmares are cured when he falls in love with a storyteller who draws him into a dangerous intrigue of rare manuscripts, police corruption, and literary societies. Finally, there are the fantastical memoirs of a woman-turned-monarch whose singular life has spanned seven generations. With each new chapter, the stunning connections between these seemingly disparate people grow clearer and more extraordinary.