by Colleen McCullough · ISBN 9788440202970
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«El pájaro espino» is the novel by Colleen McCullough, published by Ediciones Orbis in 1988 in hardback, with 400 pages, in Spanish.
The novel follows the Cleary family over several generations in the Australian outback, a remote territory where their lives are marked by love, faith, ambition and sacrifice. The narrative interweaves family drama with conflicts between feelings and beliefs in a rural setting.
It was originally published in 1977 and adapted into a television miniseries. This edition belongs to the Orbis Éxitos TV collection; the cover identifies it as «El pájaro espino (I)».
A read for those seeking family sagas and romantic dramas with a strong religious component and Australian settings.
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.
