by Luz Gabás · Editorial Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788499980232
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«Palmeras en la nieve» is the historical novel by Luz Gabás, published by Editorial Planeta in hardback (736 pages, in Spanish).
Kilian and his brother Jacobo leave the Pyrenees in 1953 to work on the Sampaka cocoa plantation on the island of Fernando Poo. Life in the colony and a forbidden love with a native woman will mark the brothers; in 2003, Clarence investigates her family's past and unearths the secret that connects them.
Luz Gabás's debut novel, part of the Autores Españoles e Iberoamericanos collection. The film adaptation of the novel won two Goya Awards.
For readers of historical and romantic novels seeking a forbidden love in colonial Africa, with echoes of Out of Africa.
Huesca-born philologist and novelist, 2022 Premio Planeta winner with Lejos de Luisiana, author of Palm Trees in the Snow and Like Fire on Ice.
