Otra vez adios / Goodbye Again

David Benda, commissioned by Sigmund Freud himself to paint his last portrait, is the name that masks the true identity of a young and extraordinary painter. David, a Jew, is passionately in love with a beautiful young Viennese woman, an "Aryan," at a time where such liaisons were a crime. Austria, his country, is in turmoil anti-Semitism is on the rise, Hitler Youth groups are everywhere, and Nazi Germany is closing in. This invasion is the overture to WWII and to a fascinating story of love, violence, and the battle to endure against tyranny. With the help of a small Jewish resistance group led by remarkable man named Karl Toledano, David escapes to Havana on board the MS St. Louis, in what became known as the "Voyage of the Damned." Thanks to Toledano's friends on the island, David is allowed to disembark and begin a new phase of his life. In Havana, his career as a portrait painter takes off and he finds love again in the arms of the beautiful and intelligent Mara but memories

Carlos Alberto Montaner nacio en La Habana. Vive en Madrid desde 1970. Escritor, periodista, profesor, conferencista, ha publicado veinticinco libros y numerosos articulos y ensayos en diarios de Espana, Estados Unidos y America Latina. La revista Poder lo ha calificado como uno de los columnistas mas influyentes en lengua espanola. Se calcula que mas de seis millones de lectores tienen acceso cada semana a sus articulos en espanol, ingles y portugues. Entre sus obras mas conocidas y traducidas estan Manual del perfecto idiota latinoamericano, El regreso del idiota (ambas escritas junto a Alvaro Vargas Llosa y Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza), La libertad y sus enemigos, Las raices torcidas de America Latina, Las columnas de la libertad y Los latinoamericanos y la cultura occidental. La mujer del coronel es su tercera y ultima novela publicada.