by Colleen McCullough · ZETA BOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496546172
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«El desafío» is the historical novel by Colleen McCullough, published by ZETA BOLSILLO in paperback, with 640 pages, in Spanish.
Sixteen-year-old Scottish girl Elizabeth Drummond is forced to marry Alexander Kinross, a compatriot who made his fortune in the United States and Australia and whom she does not know. Settled in a strange country, Elizabeth discovers that her husband does not hide an extramarital affair, and she must find her own place as the marriage deteriorates.
The original English, The Touch, was published in 2003 and this Spanish edition features a translation by Fernando Edelmiro Mateo.
A work suitable for readers of historical and romantic fiction, especially that set in Australia.
Colleen McCullough was an Australian author. Raised in Sydney, she trained as a neurophysiologist and spent her early career working at hospitals and universities in Australia and overseas. In 1974, while working as a research assistant at the Yale School of Medicine, she published her first novel Tim. Her second novel, The Thorn Birds, was published in 1977 and became an international bestseller. It sold more than 30 million copies worldwide and was adapted into a successful television miniseries.
