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Chasing the Sun: A Novel [Kindle Edition]
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Andres suspects his wife has left him—again. Then he learns that the unthinkable has happened: she’s been kidnapped. Too much time and too many secrets have come between Andres and Marabela, but now that she’s gone, he’ll do anything to get her back. Or will he?
As Marabela slips farther away, Andres must decide whether they still have something worth fighting for, and exactly what he’ll give up to bring her home. And unfortunately, the decision isn’t entirely up to him, or up to the private mediator who moves into the family home to negotiate with the terrorists holding Marabela. Andres struggles to maintain the illusion of control while simultaneously scrambling to collect his wife’s ransom, tending to the needs of his two young children, and reconnecting with an old friend who may hold the key to his past and his wife’s future.
Set in Lima, Peru, in a time of civil and political unrest, this evocative page-turner is a perfect marriage of domestic drama and suspense.
As Marabela slips farther away, Andres must decide whether they still have something worth fighting for, and exactly what he’ll give up to bring her home. And unfortunately, the decision isn’t entirely up to him, or up to the private mediator who moves into the family home to negotiate with the terrorists holding Marabela. Andres struggles to maintain the illusion of control while simultaneously scrambling to collect his wife’s ransom, tending to the needs of his two young children, and reconnecting with an old friend who may hold the key to his past and his wife’s future.
Set in Lima, Peru, in a time of civil and political unrest, this evocative page-turner is a perfect marriage of domestic drama and suspense.
What would you do if the person you loved most in this life—the mother of your children, the glue holding your family together—were kidnapped? What if saving her meant losing nearly everything else? This is the impossible dilemma Andres Jiménez must face in Natalia Sylvester's breathtaking debut novel, Chasing the Sun.
Set against the backdrop of political turmoil in Lima, Peru, in the early 1990s, the story unfolds during a time when everyone had to worry about their money becoming worthless overnight due to wild inflation, witness angry protests in the streets, and fear for their safety on a daily basis. Not only was I engrossed by Andres's frantic operation to bring his wife, Marabela, home, but I also felt as if I'd traveled in time to this specific moment in Peru's history that Natalia brings to life so skillfully. Even more intriguing is the fact that her novel was partly inspired by a similar kidnapping in her own family.
I love suspenseful reads like Gone Girl, so I flew through this manuscript when it landed on my desk. I had to know whether Andres would ultimately sacrifice everything—the business he built from scratch over eighteen years, the people who depended on him for their livelihood, and the priceless family heirlooms he inherited—to come up with the ransom to rescue Marabela from her ruthless kidnappers.
Yet what still haunts me about Chasing the Sun are the marital fissures and buried resentments the aftermath of the kidnapping brings to light. They made me wonder whether a family can ever truly survive such a traumatic event. Perhaps they will forever be chasing better days when life seemed simple.
Set against the backdrop of political turmoil in Lima, Peru, in the early 1990s, the story unfolds during a time when everyone had to worry about their money becoming worthless overnight due to wild inflation, witness angry protests in the streets, and fear for their safety on a daily basis. Not only was I engrossed by Andres's frantic operation to bring his wife, Marabela, home, but I also felt as if I'd traveled in time to this specific moment in Peru's history that Natalia brings to life so skillfully. Even more intriguing is the fact that her novel was partly inspired by a similar kidnapping in her own family.
I love suspenseful reads like Gone Girl, so I flew through this manuscript when it landed on my desk. I had to know whether Andres would ultimately sacrifice everything—the business he built from scratch over eighteen years, the people who depended on him for their livelihood, and the priceless family heirlooms he inherited—to come up with the ransom to rescue Marabela from her ruthless kidnappers.
Yet what still haunts me about Chasing the Sun are the marital fissures and buried resentments the aftermath of the kidnapping brings to light. They made me wonder whether a family can ever truly survive such a traumatic event. Perhaps they will forever be chasing better days when life seemed simple.
Publication Date: June 1, 2014
Andres suspects his wife has left him—again. Then he learns that the unthinkable has happened: she’s been kidnapped. Too much time and too many secrets have come between Andres and Marabela, but now that she’s gone, he’ll do anything to get her back. Or will he?
As Marabela slips farther away, Andres must decide whether they still have something worth fighting for, and exactly what he’ll give up to bring her home. And unfortunately, the decision isn’t entirely up to him, or up to the private mediator who moves into the family home to negotiate with the terrorists holding Marabela. Andres struggles to maintain the illusion of control while simultaneously scrambling to collect his wife’s ransom, tending to the needs of his two young children, and reconnecting with an old friend who may hold the key to his past and his wife’s future.
Set in Lima, Peru, in a time of civil and political unrest, this evocative page-turner is a perfect marriage of domestic drama and suspense.
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