The other side shows the Carrion Gonzalez family, with a conservative patriarch who supports the fascist regime, married to a woman who is part of the Socialist party (kaboom!), who live in Torrelodones.Ĭome to 2005 and Julio Carrion Gonzalez, a millionaire and a charismatic magician, has died. Here we have two families – the Fernandez Munoz family, Republican, rich and holidaying in Torrelodones (just north-west of Madrid) up until the war. Two families, from the Spanish civil war until 2005, and how Spain and a family is the sum of the past. As soon as I wrote my review, I found I was not the only one to say so. The Frozen Heart really is THE Spanish novel. Against such a past, where do faith and loyalty lie? From the provincial heartlands of Spain to the battlefields of Russia, this is a mesmerizing journey through a war that tore families apart, pitting fathers against sons, brothers against brothers, and wives against husbands. ![]() The woman is Raquel Fernandez Perea, the daughter of Spaniards who fled during the Civil War. In his father’s study Alvaro discovers an old folder with letters sent to his father in Russia between 19, faded photos of people he never met, and a locked grey metal box. Alvaro’s questions deepen when the family inherits an enormous amount of money, a surprise even to them. But as the family stand by the graveside, his son Alvaro notices the arrival of an attractive stranger-no one appears to know who she is, or why she is there. Julio Carrion Gonzalez, a man of tremendous wealth and influence in Madrid, has come home to be buried. In a small town on the outskirts of Madrid, a funeral is taking place.
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