The New York Times bestselling author of The Time in Between returns
with a magnificent new novel set in 1860s Mexico City, Havana, and Spain
about a self-made man who loses his fortune overnight but finds his
destiny as he works to restore a legendary vineyard to its former glory,
and to win the love of the combative widow who once owned the
property.Now available in Spanish. Mauro Larrea sees the fortune that he
had built after years of hardship and toil come crashing down on the
heels of a calamitous event. Swamped by debts and uncertainty, he
gambles the last of his last money in a daring move that offers him the
opportunity to resuscitate his fortune. But when the unsettling Soledad
Montalvo, wife of a London wine merchant, comes into his life, her
passionate intensity lures him toward an unanticipated future. La
Templanza spans diverse worlds, from the young Mexican republic to
magnificent colonial Havana; from the West Indies to the Jerez of the
second half of the nineteenth-century, when its wine trade with England
turned the Andalusian city into a legendary cosmopolitan enclave. A
novel replete with glories and defeats, with silver mines, family
intrigues, vineyards, and splendid places whose grandeur has faded in
time, La Templanza is a story of resilience in the face of adversity, of
a lifeline forever altered by the force of passion.
