La memoria de las olas

CANARY ISLANDS, 2019. Mara Denis arrives in La Palma to do a story, but discovers something that turns everything upside down: her great-grandmother Catalina Quintana's name appears among the victims of the Valbanera, a ship that sank en route to Cuba a century earlier. Determined to unravel this discovery that contradicts everything she knew about her family, she embarks on a quest that will confront her with her origins. CANARY ISLANDS AND CUBA, 1919. Catalina Quintana leaves her island for Cuba, forced to start over with a young daughter, but the sea will seal her fate. Marked by the secrets she keeps to protect her family, her story remains buried beneath the waves for a century, until Mara's search brings it back to light and unearths a past silenced for generations. With delicate and captivating prose reminiscent of the best of Isabel Allende, Pulitzer Prize winner Mirta Ojito draws inspiration from real events to construct a grand family saga about the power of love and the bonds that sustain us across generations.