Sometimes I find it hard to believe, but I was once news. I have not achieved anything great in my life. I was just a woman who wanted to be loved a lot, and not by many. That was my crime. But my fate, in spite of my vain hopes, had been written with my first cry years before, and as always the future had been judged and decided before that story had even begun—the loveliest and most horrible story that could be wished for, and when it started it was already too late...
This is how Isabella Moreno begins her story, who left forever the country where she was born, in a desperate attempt to escape from painful memories, convinced that if she put an entire ocean between her and the past, the fire that burned inside she would slowly tire. Fifteen years later the ghosts that haunted her youth return and then she begins to remember…
Maria Karagianni has stated that for her books she chooses countries whose history weighs heavily on her. After In the Shadow of Silence and The House of Seagulls, he returns with Wish, this time to transport the reader to contemporary Buenos Aires, where under the bright eaves of its boulevards, a whole theater of shadows is spread deep rooted in its years more inhumane dictatorship. Because in Argentina if you don't know everything about the other person, it's like you know nothing.
A shocking novel of realism, sometimes wild and sometimes deeply moving that poses moral dilemmas, and focuses on parenting standards, human rights violations and the sacrifice of supreme love.
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