Cecilia Samartin

El don de Ana, de Cecilia Samartin, autora de otras obras como La abuela Lola, es una novela increíblemente intensa y sentimental que nos hará apreciar la delicadeza de las pequeñas cosas. El don de Ana se ha convertido en un verdadero exito de critica y ventas en el extranjero con mas de medio millon de ejemplares vendidos. Ha sido traducida a varios idiomas y publicada en Francia, Noruega, Holanda, Suecia, Finlandia, Eslovaquia y Dinamarca. Cecilia Samartin ha sido la autora con mas novelas en la lista del TOP 20 de Noruega durante el año 2012. Esta obra esta clasificada en la materia narrativa española.Querido lector: Aunque estas lineas suelen utilizarse para adentrar a las personas en una novela, en esta ocasion creemos que no existen palabras suficientes para poder explicar las emociones y los sentimientos que esta obra va a transmitirte. Creemos, ademas, que desvelar plenamente su contenido dejaria muchos cabos sueltos, pues este relato tiene la capacidad de llegar al corazon de las personas por muy diferentes motivos.Sin embargo, si decides sumergirte en su lectura, debes saber que esta es la historia que bien podria haber sido real de Ana, una niña que sobrevivio a la guerra y cuyo corazon herido la alejo del mundo durante mucho tiempo. Una niña que tuvo la oportunidad de pertenecer a una de las familias mas ricas de California y de formar parte de sus vidas para siempre?.Escrita con gracia evocadora y belleza poetica, El don de Ana capturo mi corazon desde la primera pagina y no lo solto hasta el final. Una historia de lugares perdidos y encontrados donde Cecilia Samartin logra introducirse en los lugares mas reconditos del alma humana. Le MondeEl don de Ana es un libro para cuidarse a uno mismo. Karen White, autora de The memory of water.

"Jamila e una ragazza di straordinaria bellezza, ma sotto i vestiti nasconde una ""voglia"" dall''aspetto grottesco, che le copre quasi tutto il collo, la schiena e la parte posteriore delle gambe. Questo difetto fisico le crea un vero e proprio disagio: non va a scuola, vive una vita ritirata ed e additata dagli altri come se fosse stata toccata dal diavolo. Quando sua madre muore, Jamila spera di poter trovare un chirurgo estetico che le risolva il problema e per questo fugge negli Stati Uniti. Li trova lavoro come assistente-badante in un ospedale psichiatrico, dove si prende cura di un anziano e bizzarro signore che si chiama Senor Peregrino. Il rapporto tra i due inizialmente e tempestoso, lui la ricatta: ""O ascolti la mia storia o non ti ridaro i tuoi documenti"". Ma quando Jamila decide di ascoltare la sua storia (e la storia del suo pellegrinaggio a Santiago di Compostela), trova finalmente la chiave per affrontare la propria vita. Entrambi hanno affrontato un viaggio che li ha cambiati per sempre... "

In Broken Paradise Cecilia Samartin offers heart wrenching insight into the tender balance between hope and grief that shapes the immigrant heart and exposes the struggles of everyday people amid political turmoil. Cuba, 1956: Cousins Nora and Alicia are accustomed to living among Havanas privileged class -- lavish dinners, days at the beach, dances, and dresses. Their idyllic lives take a turn for the worst after Castros rise to power. Food becomes scarce, religion is forbidden, and disease is rampant. Alicia stays behind while Nora emigrates to the United States and struggles in an unfamiliar land. Both of their identities are challenged as they try to adapt to the changes forced upon them. The situation in Cuba deteriorates and Alicia is beset by bad fortune, while Nora painfully assimilates into middle-class U.S. culture. Her heart, however, remains in Cuba. Letters between the cousins track their lives until Alicias situation becomes so difficult that Nora is forced to return and help. But what she finds in Cuba is like nothing she has ever imagined. Broken Paradise is an extraordinarily powerful novel about passion, love, and the hearts yearning for home.

Jamilet is a beautiful young woman marred by a shockingly gruesome birthmark. It spills over her back and down her legs, twisting and writhing like a hideous cape of blood, causing her to be shunned by the villagers of her rural Mexican town. In search of medical salvation, this angel with the devils mark is finally driven to escape north and cross the border illegally to Los Angeles. After acquiring false documents, Jamilet finds work at a mental hospital, where she is assigned to look after Señor Peregrino, an elderly man from Spain who is as disagreeable as he is mysterious. Jamilet is given strict orders to keep her distance, but when he cleverly snags possession of her papers, he bargains to return them upon the condition that she listen to his story. Jamilet begrudgingly agrees, and Señor Peregrino takes her back to the days of his youth, when he embarked upon a mystical and romantic journey along the legendary Road to Santiago in Spain. Jamilet and Señor Peregrino forge a spiritual bond that is more healing to them both than modern medicine could ever be. In an inspiring story of redemption, faith and the enduring power of love, Samartin offers an enlightening perspective on the true meaning of beauty.

When a nanny from war-torn El Salvador moves in with a wealthy American family, the result is an inspiring story about the power of love to cross cultural boundaries.Cecilia Samartins most impressive work yet, Vigil is told from the perspective of Ana, a middle aged woman who is waiting at the deathbed of her husband as he loses his battle against cancer. While she waits, she thinks back on her life and the incredible journey that brought her from war-torn El Salvador, to a convent in the U.S., and finally to a wealthy California estate where she was employed as the nanny for a dysfunctional family caught up in the throes of decadent life. Despite her traumatic past, she is able to bring a wealth of love and harmony to her affluent yet spiritually bereft employersgifts that no money could ever buy. In the course of Samartins work as a psychotherapist, she has been awed by those rare individuals who not only survive after having endured unimaginable trauma, but flourish, and are able to promote the same in those around them. Vigil is the story of one such woman and the family that she sets her heart on saving. A heart-wrenching story of love and loss, Vigil is Cecilia Samartins most powerful novel to date. As Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander said, Samartin writes with shimmering grace about homeland, exile, passion, and loyalty. Readers will be spellbound by Vigils magical language and provocative themes.

It is 1955 and two cousins, Nora and Alicia, are growing up in Cuba, where the sea is a beguiling turquoise and at night the lights glitter like stars along Havanas shoreline. But revolutionary storm clouds are gathering, and as Fidel Castro comes to power, banks are closed, religion outlawed, and food shortages begin. Nora and her family emigrate to California; Alicia and hers stay behind. But Nora has left her heart in Cuba with her cousin. As the years pass and she becomes a woman, Alicia writes of her marriage to Tony, the birth of her daughter, and the terrible privations ordinary Cubans are suffering. When Tony is arrested for anti-revolutionary behaviour, and Alicia and her daughters survival becomes increasingly hand-to-mouth, Nora knows she must leave her privileged life in America, and return to help them. But Cuba, and Alicias life as a single parent, is like nothing she has ever imagined

Sebastian sueña con ser un niño igual que los demás, con ser capaz de correr como el viento en el campo de fútbol, chutar la pelota de tal manera que dibuje una perfecta parábola y marcar un gol. Pero su corazon tiene un defecto desde que nacio, lo que significa que no puede cumplir sus deseos. No obstante, Sebastian ha logrado encontrar su lugar en el mundo gracias a su excentrica abuela Lola y al amor que esta siente por la cocina. Ambos preparan juntos riquisimos y exoticos platos puertorriqueños, el pais de origen de su abuela. La complicidad que crece entre ambos (un niño enfermo y una anciana) se convierte pronto en un fuerte vinculo que logra unir de nuevo a una familia desestructurada, pues, como siempre dice Lola, una comida preparada con amor no solo alimenta el cuerpo, sino tambien el alma.Esta es la historia magica de un niño que aprendio a bailar con la muerte y de como las pequeñas victorias de una familia pueden servir para reconstruir corazones heridos de muy diversas maneras. La abuela Lolanos enseña que la diferencia entre la alegria y la tristeza a veces pende simplemente de un hilo fragil, casi invisible. Una historia conmovedora que te emocionara.

Una novela evocadora y mágica que no podrás dejar.Sebastian sueña con ser un niño igual que los demás, con ser capaz de correr como el viento en el campo de fútbol, chutar la pelota de tal manera que dibuje una perfecta parabola y marcar un gol. Pero su corazon tiene un defecto desde que nacio, lo que significa que no puede cumplir sus deseos. No obstante, Sebastian ha logrado encontrar su lugar en el mundo gracias a su excentrica abuela Lola y al amor que esta siente por la cocina. Ambos preparan juntos riquisimos y exoticos platos puertorriqueños, el pais de origen de su abuela. La complicidad que crece entre ambos (un niño enfermo y una anciana) se convierte pronto en un fuerte vinculo que logra unir de nuevo a una familia desestructurada, pues, como siempre dice Lola, una comida preparada con amor no solo alimenta el cuerpo, sino tambien el alma.Esta es la historia magica de un niño que aprendio a bailar con la muerte y de como las pequeñas victorias de una familia pueden servir para reconstruir corazones heridos de muy diversas maneras. La abuela Lola nos enseña que la diferencia entre la alegria y la tristeza a veces pende simplemente de un hilo fragil, casi invisible. Una historia conmovedora que te emocionara.