by Colleen McCullough · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401805752
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«El pájaro espino» is the romantic novel by Colleen McCullough, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (461 pages, in Spanish).
Family saga set in rural Australia that follows the Clearys over several generations. The story centers on Meggie, whose love for the ambitious priest Ralph de Bricassart becomes a forbidden passion that shapes her family's destiny, in a drama about faith, sacrifice and ambition.
Work originally published in English as The Thorn Birds, in a Spanish translation by J. Ferrer Aleu.
Recommended for readers of family sagas and romantic novels of literary fiction.
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.
