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""La historia de cómo tres mujeres lucharon contra los horrores de la Primera Guerra Mundial y el impacto de ese drama en las vidas de sus hombres. Londres, 11 de noviembre de 1920. Mientras la ciudad se prepara para recibir el cuerpo del Soldado Desconocido, tres mujeres tratan de superar las pérdidas y dificultades de la Gran Guerra: Hettie, una joven que se alquila para bailar; Evelyn, una rica heredera que ayuda a ex combatientes, y Ada, una madre que cree ver el fantasma de su hijo desaparecido en el campo de batalla. Un día, un hombre llama a la puerta de Ada y anuncia un secreto acontecido en la guerra que unirá el destino de las tres mujeres y servirá para cerrar heridas. Despertar se abre como un juego de cajas chinas -una historia de amor imposible, una narración del papel de las mujeres en la Gran Guerra- y se cierra en los albores de un siglo en el que se perdió la inocencia para siempre. "La idea para Despertar se me ocurrió leyendo sobre la historia social de las mujeres a principios del siglo XX quería descubrir qué había hecho la guerra por ellas y por qué. No encontré muchos libros que abordaran la guerra desde el punto de vista de las mujeres. De modo que decidí escribir sobre el tema.""--P. [4] of cover."
"Anna Hope's brilliant debut novel unfolds over the course of five days, as three women must deal with the aftershocks of World War I and its impact on the men in their lives. Wake: 1) Emerge or cause to emerge from sleep. 2) Ritual for the dead. 3) Consequence or aftermath. London, 1920. The city prepares to observe the two-year anniversary of Armistice Day with the burial of the unknown soldier..."@en
"London 1920: As the body of the Unknown Soldier makes its way home from the fields of Northern France, three women are dealing with loss in their own way: Hettie, who dances for sixpence a waltz at the Hammersmith Palais; Evelyn, who toils at a job in the pensions office, and Ada, a housewife who is beset by visions of her dead son. One day a young man comes to her door. He carries with him a wartime mystery that will bind these women together and will both mend and tear their hearts."
""Hettie, a dance instructress at the Palais, lives at home with her mother and her brother, mute and lost after his return from the war. One night, at work, she meets a wealthy, educated man and has reason to think he is as smitten with her as she is with him. Still there is something distracted about him, something she cannot reach ... Evelyn works at the Pensions Exchange through which thousands of men have claimed benefits from wounds or debilitating distress. Embittered by her own loss, more and more estranged from her posh parents, she looks for solace in her adored brother who has not been the same since he returned from the front ... Ada is beset by visions of her son on every street, convinced he is still alive. Helpless, her loving husband of 25 years has withdrawn from her. Then one day a young man appears at her door with notions to peddle, like hundreds of out of work veterans. But when he shows signs of being seriously disturbed--she recognizes the symptoms of "shell shock"--And utters the name of her son she is jolted to the core ... The lives of these three women are braided together, their stories gathering tremendous power as the ties that bind them become clear, and the body of the unknown soldier moves closer and closer to its final resting place"--"@en
""Hettie, a dance instructress at the Palais, lives at home with her mother and her brother, mute and lost after his return from the war. One night, at work, she meets a wealthy, educated man and has reason to think he is as smitten with her as she is with him. Still there is something distracted about him, something she cannot reach... Evelyn works at the Pensions Exchange through which thousands of men have claimed benefits from wounds or debilitating distress. Embittered by her own loss, more and more estranged from her posh parents, she looks for solace in her adored brother who has not been the same since he returned from the front... Ada is beset by visions of her son on every street, convinced he is still alive. Helpless, her loving husband of 25 years has withdrawn from her. Then one day a young man appears at her door with notions to peddle, like hundreds of out of work veterans. But when he shows signs of being seriously disturbed--she recognizes the symptoms of "shell shock"-- and utters the name of her son she is jolted to the core... The lives of these three women are braided together, their stories gathering tremendous power as the ties that bind them become clear, and the body of the unknown soldier moves closer and closer to its final resting place"--"
"The story of how three women fought the horrors of the First World War and the impact of that drama in the lives of their men. London, November 11, 1920. As the city prepares to receive the body of the Unknown Soldier, three women try to overcome the difficulties of the Great War and loss: Hettie, a young woman who is paid to dance; Evelyn, a rich heiress who helps veterans, and Ada, a mother who thinks she sees the ghost of her missing son on the battlefield. One day, a man knocks on Ada's door and announces a secret war happened in linking the fate of the three women and serve to close wounds. Awakening opens like a game of Chinese boxes-an impossible love story, a narrative of the role of women in the Great War and closes at the dawn of a century in which innocence is lost forever."
"November, 1920. As the body of an unknown soldier makes its way home from the fields of northern France, three women are dealing with loss in their own way: Hettie, who dances for sixpence a waltz at the Hammersmith Palais; Evelyn, who toils at a lowly job in the pensions office; and Ada, a housewife who is beset by visions of her dead son. One day a young man comes to Ada's door, and with him opens a wartime mystery that will bind these women together and both mend and tear their hearts. In this shattering novel of intertwining lives, Anna Hope shows the beginnings of a new era, and the day the mood of a nation changed forever."

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"Large type books"
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"Historical fiction"
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"History"
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"Fiction"
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"Wake : a novel"@en
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"Despertar"
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"Wake"
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"Pomen"
"I giorni sospesi"
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"Wake voor een onbekende"

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