Overview
Por la autora del aclamado bestseller LA LUZ ENTRE LOS OCÉANOS.
«Una historia grande y valiente. [ ] Me cautivó desde el principio.»
—Bonnie Garmus
De la autora de La luz entre los océanos, un aclamado bestseller traducido a cuarenta y cinco idiomas y convertido en un éxito internacional, llega Una vida lejana, una novela ambiciosa y profundamente conmovedora en la que M. L. Stedman vuelve a explorar los territorios más complejos del corazón humano y nos ofrece una historia épica e íntima a la vez, donde cada decisión deja una huella imborrable.
Australia Occidental, 1958. Durante generaciones, los MacBride han vivido en Meredith Downs, una inmensa y remota granja de ovejas: cientos de miles de hectáreas de tierra árida donde el paisaje, infinito y atemporal, impone sus propias leyes y hace visible la fragilidad de la existencia humana. Un día cualquiera, en una carretera solitaria bajo un cielo interminable, el patriarca Phil MacBride da un volantazo para esquivar a un canguro. En cuestión de segundos, la vida de toda la familia se hace añicos. Pero la tragedia no termina ahí: una cadena de consecuencias se cobrará la vida de uno de los hermanos y llevará a otro a renunciar a todo por el bien de un niño inocente. Matt, el más joven de los MacBride, se verá empujado a un viaje moral y emocional sin mapas ni certezas, obligado a elegir entre el amor y el deber, el sacrificio y la felicidad.
Ambientada a lo largo de varias décadas del siglo XX, Una vida lejana es una historia sobre la familia y el destino, sobre secretos que marcan para siempre y personas que intentan hacer lo correcto mientras buscan refugio frente a las adversidades.
Profunda, conmovedora y luminosa, esta novela explora las consecuencias de nuestras decisiones y celebra la fuerza perdurable del amor y la esperanza, incluso cuando todo parece perdido.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
From the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Light Between Oceans comes a breathtaking and epic novel set in the vast outback of Australia—about tragedy, family secrets, and the enduring power of love.
When we do something that can’t be undone or mended, how do we go on living? How do we find our North Star when there is no right answer? These are the questions at the center of M. L. Stedman’s unforgettable and magisterial new novel, A Far-flung Life. From the author of the beloved and bestselling The Light Between Oceans, this is a sweeping and epic story of a family, a tragedy, and the aftermath that reverberates for decades.
Remote Western Australia, 1958: here, for generations, the MacBrides have lived on a vast sheep station, Meredith Downs. It is a million acres, an ocean of arid land. On an ordinary day, on a lonely road, under the unending blue sky, patriarch Phil MacBride swerves to avoid a kangaroo. In seconds the lives of the entire MacBride family are shattered. And then, tragedy revisits when a twist of consequences claims the life of one sibling, and leads another to give up everything for the sake of an innocent child. Matt, the youngest MacBride, is plunged into a moral and emotional journey for which there is no map, no guide. The secrets at the heart of this gutting and beautiful story force him to choose between love and duty, sacrifice and happiness.
A Far-flung Life is a tale about family and belonging, fate and time. It is about people trying to do their best, and each, for private reasons, seeking shelter from the storm of life.
Can a fleeting moment unravel a whole life, mar it indelibly and irrevocably? Can compassion, resilience and forgiveness allow us to come to terms with our human imperfections? These are the questions Stedman asks in A Far-flung Life, her profoundly moving, uplifting, and luminous new novel about what the heart can endure for the sake of love.
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