Naomi Wood

In 1922, Paul Beckermann arrives at the Bauhaus art school and is immediately seduced by both the charismatic teaching and his fellow students. Eccentric and alluring, the more time Paul spends with his new friends the closer they become, and the deeper he falls in love with the mesmerising Charlotte. But Paul is not the only one vying for her affections, and soon an insidious rivalry takes root.As political tensions escalate in Germany, the Bauhaus finds itself under threat, and the group begins to disintegrate under the pressure of its own betrayals and love affairs. Decades later, in the wake of an unthinkable tragedy, Paul is haunted by a secret. When an old friend from the Bauhaus resurfaces, he must finally break his silence.Beautifully written, powerful and suspenseful, Naomi Wood's The Hiding Game is a novel about the dangerously fine line between love and obsession, set against the most turbulent era of our recent past.

In the dazzling summer of 1926, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley travel from their home in Paris to a villa in the south of France. They swim, play bridge and drink gin. But wherever they go they are accompanied by the glamorous and irrepressible Fife. Fife is Hadley's best friend. She is also Ernest's lover. Hadley is the first Mrs. Hemingway, but neither she nor Fife will be the last. Over the ensuing decades, Ernest's literary career will blaze a trail, but his marriages will be ignited by passion and deceit. Four extraordinary women will learn what it means to love the most famous writer of his generation, and each will be forced to ask herself how far she will go to remain his wife...Luminous and intoxicating, Mrs. Hemingway portrays real lives with rare intimacy and plumbs the depths of the human heart.

Ernest Hemingway idazleak emakumeekin izan zituen harremanak gatazkatsuak izan ziren; segur asko emakumeekin zeuzkan harremanetan ematen zuena baino askoz gehiago jasotzea espero zuelako. Ezkontza ordenatua desiratzen zuen emakume ezberdinekin oheratzea bezainbeste eta horregatik beharbada bikotez-bikote ibili zen beti maitasun hiruki ezinezkoak sortzen. Bizitzan zehar lau emazte izan zituen eta Naomi Wooden eleberri koral honetan laurak agertzen dira: idazlearekin Parisen bizi izan zen eta bere lehen semearen ama izan zen Hadley Richardson; hasieran amorante eta gero emazte izan zen Pauline Pfeiffer Fife aberatsa; Espainiako guda zibilean harekin batera gerra-berriemaile izandako Martha Gellhorn eta ezkondutakoan kazetari lanbidea utzi zuen Mary Welsh; 1961ean, guztiei Hemingwayren heriotzaren berri eman ziena, baita emazte ohiei ere.

"Meticulosa, imaginativa y cargada de emoción, Las señoras Hemingway es una novela más autentica que la mayoría de las biografías."Jon Day, The Telegraph La tranquila casa familiar donde la esposa vive con los hijos y, enfrente, un edificio de nueve plantas, una para cada amante. Asi era el paraiso segun Ernest Hemingway, un hombre que no queria renunciar ni a la comodidad del hogar ni a la diversion de una aventura. Por eso se caso cuatro veces y se vio envuelto en varios triangulos amorosos donde la pasion tarde o temprano dejaba paso al dolor. Primero vino la dulce Hadley, de quien se divorcio en el Paris bohemio de los años veinte. Luego se abrieron paso la elegante Fife, la intrepida periodista de guerra Martha Gellhorn, y finalmente Mary Welsh, la reportera que acompaño a Hemingway durante sus ultimos años. Trenzando estas voces tan proximas al gran escritor, Naomi Wood retrata a un hombre que sabia seducir con las palabras pero era reacio a pactar con la realidad de un amor de muchos dias, y las que fueron sus cuatro mujeres de carne y hueso son ahora las protagonistas de esta esplendida novela: las señoras Hemingway hablan por fin, y tienen mucho que contar.