Ein unvergänglicher Sommer

A snowstorm in Brooklyn, and Richard dismisses the rear-end collision as a trivial episode. But no sooner is the solitary professor home than the driver of the other car is at the door. Evelyn is completely distraught: There's a dead body in her trunk. She can't go to the police, because the shy Guatemalan nanny is in the country illegally. Richard turns for help to Lucía, his swashbuckling Chilean lodger who also works at the university. Lucía urges bold action: the body must disappear. Headlong, they set off for the northern woods, on a journey that will profoundly change the three of them. And on the brink of this adventure, something develops between Richard and Lucía that neither of them had dared to dream of for a long time. "It is not gravity that keeps our universe in balance, but love." Isabel Allende tells us a story as only she can, soulful, humorous and wise to life. A story of escape, loss and late new beginnings. And of how much we humans can suffer without losing our hope.