Las damas de la telaraña

Claudine and Niní have a dream: to become a principal dancer at the Opéra Garnier in Paris. But the Fates have spun a different thread for them, and soon that dream is shattered. Claudine, anchored to Montmartre to survive, with only Alain's friendship and Adrien's love as a lifeline, she will try to stay away from the gangs that plague the streets. And Niní, dragged by a hidden past, will see the death of the girl who was in Togoland, a German colony in a piece of mysterious and distant Africa, to be reborn as a new woman on the other side of the world, in a hospital in Zurich. But the thread that binds them, like the web of a spider's web, is not so easy to break. Turned into what they had always wanted to flee from, one selling her body and the other the secrets of the Empire, neither the war that devastates Europe nor the disease of madness that attacks them will be able to change the destiny that awaits them... This is it a history of war at the dawn of the First World War, of the imperial colonies, of Paris at the beginning of the century, of a Europe that is being consumed. But also, and above all, a human story, in which the protagonists emerge, with their flaws and virtues, as eternal beings that are stuck in the heart. Passion, love, betrayals, sleeplessness, madness, ancient magic and friendship. All this and much more makes this work, Las damas de la spiderweb, an absolutely unforgettable novel. And to its author, Nieves Muñoz, he launches it as what it undoubtedly is: a teacher of the historical novel and of the most human feeling.