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Title: Domingo's Angel
Author: Jenny Twist
Narrator: Gary Furlong
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-07-15
Publisher: Jennifer Margaret Twist
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
When Angela turns up in a remote Spanish mountain village, she is so tall, thin, and pale that everyone thinks she is a ghost, fairy, or the dreadful mantequero that comes in the night and sucks the fat from your bones.
But Domingo knows better. "Soy Angela," she said to him when they met - "I am an angel." Only later did he realize that she was telling him her name, and by then it was too late, and everyone knew her as Domingo's Angel.
This is the story of their love affair. But it is also the story of the people of the tiny mountain village: the indomitable Rosalba, a shopkeeper, doctor, midwife, and wise woman who makes it her business to know everything that goes on in the village; Guillermo, the mayor, whose delusions of grandeur are rooted in his impoverished childhood; and Salva, the baker who risked his life and liberty to give bread to the starving children.
The events in this story are based on the real experiences of the people of the White Villages in Southern Spain and their struggle to keep their communities alive through the years of war and the oppression of Franco's rule.
Members Reviews:
A beautiful read and a chance to learn
A survey of fiction readers showed that the one most important aspect of a novel to readers was what they learned. Domingo's Angel fills the bill perfectly. The reader learns about conditions in Spain through the lives of villagers in the mountains. The story is beautiful, heartbreaking, and haunting. The characters, depicted so vividly, stay with the reader long after the book is done. This is one I will read and reread. Do pick up a copy. You won't be disappointed.
An Angel of a Book
Jenny writes a beautiful, moving, historical romance story using multiple POV's allowing you to get to know these characters. The descriptions are written so well, you vividly see them in your mind. I would love to see this made into a movie. Jenny had me smiling, gasping, tearing and satisfied when I came to the end.
It's OK...
This is an OK summer read when you don't need to think much.
Rosalba knows everything...
When I started to read "Domingo's Angel," it seemed to me to be a sweet, gently funny story. A young Englishwoman has decided impulsively to buy a house in a mountain village in Spain and to live there on her own, despite the fact that she can barely speak Spanish, among people who think she's so strange that she might be not quite human. Just as impulsively, she takes a handsome young stranger to bed, and he moves in with her. They adopt an orange cat. The time is not long after the end of World War II. The tone is lighthearted and humorous, with the unsophisticated villagers scratching their heads over Angela's odd ways of acting and speaking but cheerfully accepting her presence, and cheerful Angela â just as ignorant about their ways as they are about hers â enjoying herself and learning to know them.
There are hints of darkness in the first few chapters, shadows that Angela sees but doesn't understand and mostly ignores. Amused by the quirkiness of the village and lulled by the faintly dreamlike quality of the story, which moves quickly and smoothly, I ignored them too.
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Title: Domingo's Angel
Author: Jenny Twist
Narrator: Gary Furlong
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-07-15
Publisher: Jennifer Margaret Twist
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
When Angela turns up in a remote Spanish mountain village, she is so tall, thin, and pale that everyone thinks she is a ghost, fairy, or the dreadful mantequero that comes in the night and sucks the fat from your bones.
But Domingo knows better. "Soy Angela," she said to him when they met - "I am an angel." Only later did he realize that she was telling him her name, and by then it was too late, and everyone knew her as Domingo's Angel.
This is the story of their love affair. But it is also the story of the people of the tiny mountain village: the indomitable Rosalba, a shopkeeper, doctor, midwife, and wise woman who makes it her business to know everything that goes on in the village; Guillermo, the mayor, whose delusions of grandeur are rooted in his impoverished childhood; and Salva, the baker who risked his life and liberty to give bread to the starving children.
The events in this story are based on the real experiences of the people of the White Villages in Southern Spain and their struggle to keep their communities alive through the years of war and the oppression of Franco's rule.
Members Reviews:
A beautiful read and a chance to learn
A survey of fiction readers showed that the one most important aspect of a novel to readers was what they learned. Domingo's Angel fills the bill perfectly. The reader learns about conditions in Spain through the lives of villagers in the mountains. The story is beautiful, heartbreaking, and haunting. The characters, depicted so vividly, stay with the reader long after the book is done. This is one I will read and reread. Do pick up a copy. You won't be disappointed.
An Angel of a Book
Jenny writes a beautiful, moving, historical romance story using multiple POV's allowing you to get to know these characters. The descriptions are written so well, you vividly see them in your mind. I would love to see this made into a movie. Jenny had me smiling, gasping, tearing and satisfied when I came to the end.
It's OK...
This is an OK summer read when you don't need to think much.
Rosalba knows everything...
When I started to read "Domingo's Angel," it seemed to me to be a sweet, gently funny story. A young Englishwoman has decided impulsively to buy a house in a mountain village in Spain and to live there on her own, despite the fact that she can barely speak Spanish, among people who think she's so strange that she might be not quite human. Just as impulsively, she takes a handsome young stranger to bed, and he moves in with her. They adopt an orange cat. The time is not long after the end of World War II. The tone is lighthearted and humorous, with the unsophisticated villagers scratching their heads over Angela's odd ways of acting and speaking but cheerfully accepting her presence, and cheerful Angela â just as ignorant about their ways as they are about hers â enjoying herself and learning to know them.
There are hints of darkness in the first few chapters, shadows that Angela sees but doesn't understand and mostly ignores. Amused by the quirkiness of the village and lulled by the faintly dreamlike quality of the story, which moves quickly and smoothly, I ignored them too.