by Colleen Mccullough · EDICIONES B: HISTORICA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788466615617
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«El desafío» is the romantic and historical novel by Colleen McCullough, published by Ediciones B in hardback (529 pages, in Spanish).
At the end of the 19th century, a young Scottish woman travels to Australia to marry Alexander Kinross, an emigrant who made his fortune in the gold mines. After settling near the mine, Elizabeth discovers that her husband keeps secrets and that Ruby Costevan crosses their lives. Love, ambition and loyalty intertwine in a relentless landscape.
The original work in English is titled The Touch; this edition belongs to the Histórica collection by Ediciones B.
For readers of romantic and historical novels who enjoy family sagas set in Australia.
Colleen McCullough was an Australian author. Raised in Sydney, she trained as a neurophysiologist and spent her early career working at hospitals and universities in Australia and overseas. In 1974, while working as a research assistant at the Yale School of Medicine, she published her first novel Tim. Her second novel, The Thorn Birds, was published in 1977 and became an international bestseller. It sold more than 30 million copies worldwide and was adapted into a successful television miniseries.
