ON THE RED HILL

Name: ON THE RED HILL
Author: MIKE PARKER

Por MIKE PARKER

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Detrás de los muros de un convento, reina el silencio, solo salpicado por el murmullo de las oraciones o los melismas de los cantos litúrgicos. O así es como solemos imaginarlo, pero la realidad es otra. Un espacio creado por mujeres y para mujeres, con otras formas de amar, cuidar, organizarse, crear y convivir. Y, sobre todo, podemos constatar que TODO LO QUE NOS PASA, YA LE PASÓ A UNA MONJA DEL BARROCO.

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Sinopsis

WINNER OF THE WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2020 A moving story of love tradition and landscape Evening Standard Books of the Year A moving multilayered memoir extraordinary ambitious its scope is immense A book that is deep in riches Simon Callow Guardian A marvellous book an uplifting tale of tranquillity sought and found in the nearest Britain gets to paradise Simon Jenkins There are worlds on worlds within this lyrical and profoundly cultured book In an age of toxic artifice this is the most necessary medicine the tenderness of reality and the living elemental world Jay Griffiths A multi layered memoir of love acceptance finding home and the redemptive power of nature In 2006 Mike Parker and his partner Peredur were witnesses at the civil partnership of their friends Reg and George the first in the small Welsh town of Machynlleth Years later when Reg and George died within a few weeks of each other Mike and Peredur discovered that they had been left their home a whitewashed house from the children s stories buried deep within the hills On the Red Hill is the story of Rhiw Goch the Red Hill and its inhabitan