Tarnished Beauty: A Novel (Peregrino #1)

Cecilia Samartin

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3.79 · 14 ratings · 370 pages · Published: 23 Jul 2005
Tarnished Beauty: A Novel by Cecilia Samartin
Set in the United States, Spain and Mexico. Jamil has moved from Mexico to Los Angeles where she works to earn enough money to get the surgery over a birthmark that covers almost half her body. Here she is adopted as barnebarbarnebarnet to señor Peregrino, unless she completely understands why. Peregrino has had a long stay in a mental hospital, but is now out and healthy. He carries a great sorrow for his lost love, Rosa, whom he met in his youth in Spain, the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. Without that she completely understands why, well Jamil mysterious connections between their own lives and destinies of Peregrino and Rosa. Rosa has been dead for over 40 years. According to Nurse B. She is the manager of the mental hospital where Peregrino has been hospitalized. Peregrino and Nurse B. has been married. Nurse B. adding a dunk's veil over this whole pink, but it does Jamil anxious to find out more.

Marked for life
parallel, we follow the story of Rosa, many, many years earlier. We meet her in the Spanish village Sombrevista in the La Mancha region. Here she grows up with her ​​parents and two older sisters Manuela and Nina. The father is unemployed and drinks. Her mother is a washerwoman and turn pink. Pink is blamed for everything. And it is also Rosa's "guilt" that they all live in Sombrevista. Rosa was born with a terrible, meandering and raised birthmark. It stretches from the edge of her neck, down across your back and knees. With a daughter in the family, it is impossible to get married off the other daughters. Rosa is obviously no hope for, even if she is otherwise exceptionally beautiful, but the others should at least be there. It's just that birth mark, which is also linked to the devil, can be something that runs in the family. And although neither Manuela or Nina fødelsmerke, no one is going to dare to marry them, for fear that future children will be able to get it. So they moved.
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