BookShared
  • MEMBER AREA    
  • On a Night of a Thousand Stars

    (By Andrea Yaryura Clark)

    Book Cover Watermark PDF Icon Read Ebook
    ×
    Size 27 MB (27,086 KB)
    Format PDF
    Downloaded 668 times
    Last checked 14 Hour ago!
    Author Andrea Yaryura Clark
    “Book Descriptions: New York, 1998. Santiago Larrea, a wealthy Argentine diplomat, is holding court alongside his wife, Lila, and their daughter, Paloma, a college student and budding jewelry designer, at their annual summer polo match and soiree. All seems perfect in the Larreas’ world—until an unexpected party guest from Santiago's university days shakes his usually unflappable demeanor. The woman's cryptic comments spark Paloma’s curiosity about her father’s past, of which she knows little.
     
    When the family travels to Buenos Aires for Santiago's UN ambassadorial appointment, Paloma is determined to learn more about his life in the years leading up to the military dictatorship of 1976. With the help of a local university student, Franco Bonetti, an activist member of H.I.J.O.S.—a group whose members are the children of the desaparecidos, or the “disappeared,” men and women who were forcibly disappeared by the state during Argentina’s “Dirty War”—Paloma unleashes a chain of events that not only leads her to question her family and her identity, but also puts her life in danger.

    In compelling fashion, On a Night of a Thousand Stars speaks to relationships, morality, and identity during a brutal period in Argentinian history, and the understanding—and redemption—people crave in the face of tragedy.”

    Google Drive Logo DRIVE
    Book 1

    The Monk of Mokha

    ★★★★★

    Dave Eggers

    Book 1

    Lady Tan’s Circle of Women

    ★★★★★

    Lisa See

    Book 1

    Peach Blossom Spring

    ★★★★★

    Melissa Fu

    Book 1

    The Frozen River

    ★★★★★

    Ariel Lawhon

    Book 1

    Take My Hand

    ★★★★★

    Dolen Perkins-Valdez

    Book 1

    The Phoenix Crown

    ★★★★★

    Kate Quinn

    Book 1

    The Lion Women of Tehran

    ★★★★★

    Marjan Kamali

    Book 1

    A Ballad of Love and Glory

    ★★★★★

    Reyna Grande

    Book 1

    The Covenant of Water

    ★★★★★

    Abraham Verghese

    Book 1

    Hades, Argentina

    ★★★★★

    Daniel Loedel

    Book 1

    The Berry Pickers

    ★★★★★

    Amanda Peters

    Book 1

    Four Treasures of the Sky

    ★★★★★

    Jenny Tinghui Zhang

    Book 1

    The Storm We Made

    ★★★★★

    Vanessa Chan

    Book 1

    The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

    ★★★★★

    James McBride

    Book 1

    The Lost City of the Monkey God

    ★★★★★

    Douglas Preston

    Book 1

    The Great Divide

    ★★★★★

    Cristina Henríquez

    Book 1

    The Women

    ★★★★★

    Kristin Hannah