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Pasaje a Tahití
Ticket to Tahiti
Publisher:
Espasa Language:
Spanish
Year of Publication:
2014
Pages:
480
Spanish Retail price:
19.90€
ISBN:
978-84-670-4125-5
Genre:
Literature
Season:
Year 2015 SYNOPSIS
1890. Bastian and Hugo Fortuny leave for Tahiti in search of opportunity after losing their jobs as glass blowers in their native Mallorca. During the crossing they meet Laia Kane, daughter of a corrupt English consul in Menorca who has been exiled to the Polynesian island. This meeting will mark the lives of Laia and the Fortuny brothers forever. 1930. Denis Fortuny, the heir to a luxury pearl empire in Manacor, decides to travel to Tahiti to discover the mystery of the first years of his life. An epic tale of love, overcoming, family ties and secrets with colonial Tahiti and the fascinating origins of cultivated pearls as the backdrop.