Ella, que todo lo tuvo

Ella, Who Had It All

Planeta-Casamérica Award 2009 

After suffering a serious accident, Ella no longer writes. Defeated and lost, she travels to Firenze in search of a fascinating story that her father had told her and which she wants to turn into a novel. In her eagerness to feel alive, she creates a silent and enigmatic character, La Donna di Lacrima, who is visited in her splendid penthouse in the Via Ghibellina by men who spill out their lives and who adore her body and silence. No one will guess that she is the solitary and sad writer that restores books and that every afternoon at seven visits the old bookshop of the Mercato Nuovo, where another being, a bookseller as solitary and mysterious as herself, awaits her. In this deep and moving story, heartbreaking and full of sensuality, Ángela Becerra explores the depths of solitude, human beings' frailties and the real meaning of life.