El Libro de la Rosa

For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe she was abandoned, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alices old journals. A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among the animals she loved, yet Jenna hopes the entries will provide a clue to her mothers whereabouts. Desperate to find the truth, Jenna enlists two unlikely allies in her quest: Serenity Jones, a psychic who rose to fame...

Psychotherapist Dr. Brian Weiss was skeptical when one of his patients began recalling past-life traumas. His skepticism eroded when she began to channel messages from "the space between lives," which contained remarkable revelations about Dr. Weiss's family and his dead son. Using past-life therapy, he was able to cure the patient and embark on a new phase of his own career.

Excerpt: ...examined their sponsor. In the outer darkness, Heywood craned and listened till neck and shoulders ached. He could make nothing of the florid verbiage. With endless ritual, the crawling novices reached the arch of swords. They knelt, each holding above his head a lighted bundle of incense-sticks, --red sparks that quivered like angry fireflies. Above them the tall Master of Incense thundered: -- "O Spirits of the Hills and Brooks, the Land, the swollen seeds of the ground, and all the Veins of Earth; O Thou, young Bearer of the Axe that cleared the Hills; O Imperial Heaven, and...

Argumentalmente, la novela pretende contar la vida de un hombre crepuscular. La técnica utilizada para ello es el recurso a los documentos escritos, de todo tipo, que hubiera dejado a su muerte. Es función del albacea ordenar los papeles para dar coherencia a ese decurso vital. Así, el primer capítulo «Abro la carpeta y leo», que introduce personajes y temas en aparente desorden, tiene por finalidad dar el tono vital del personaje. El segundo, «22 sonetos», se sirve del esquema de los arcanos mayores del tarot para esbozar un primer examen psicológico del protagonista, en el que...