Crimen

Oscar takes the city subway often and for months he has seen a girl who is always drawing on a yellow notebook. He is intrigued by the notebook, her eyes, how she holds the pencil and what he feels every time they pass each other without saying anything... Valentina has drawn a multitude of strangers, but there is one that is special to her, a boy she calls the boy with glasses. They both don't know each other and have no possibility of meeting... and yet they both feel that they are joined by an invisible thread.

Translated into 25 languages, this novel shows what life was like in Iran before the Islamic revolution of 1979 and in the decades since. Masumeh, a 15-year-old girl, falls for a boy named Said. When their relationship is discovered, Masumeh's family is outraged and forces her into an arranged marriage with a man named Hamid, who devotes his life and the majority of time to politics. Over 30 years, Masumeh suffers through the country's radical changes until one day, one of life's unexpected turns forces her to choose between happiness and honoring tradition.

When the tortured body of a young woman is found in a dumpster, her eyes swollen shut and her clothes soaked with blood, Detective Erika Foster is one of the first at the crime scene. The trouble is, this time, it's not her case.

Doce casas iguales rodean un jardín de cuyo centro irradian las leyes invisibles del tiempo. La mujer se dirige a la primera de las puertas, que se abre sin llave, y descubre un interior, absorto en sí mismo, en el que otra mujer lleva a cabo una tarea. En cada casa hallamos una labor diferente, las moradas se suceden como los meses y las estaciones, y la mujer visita el corazón ensimismado de estas estancias íntimas. El lápiz en el papel, la aguja en la tela, los dedos en el piano, el cuchillo en la tabla... los distintos alfabetos de un único oficio de luz y de tinieblas.