Echoes of Yesterday

Original Title: Los ecos del ayer

Publication: 2025

Author: Carmen Santos

During Christmas Eve dinner in 1970, Emiliano Quesada, a former landowner, chokes to death while savoring his favorite dish. The incident sparks rumors that someone has cast an evil eye upon the family, dooming every member to misfortune.

Years later, in the early hours of December 18, 1999, Isabel receives a call: her brother Santi has died that night, choking during his company’s Christmas dinner. The news plunges Isabel into deep depression and rekindles memories of the Quesada curse—something she had always refused to believe in.

By 2001, just as she has finally recovered from her depression, Isabel receives another call that shakes her world once again: a lawyer wants to buy the Quesada family lands, of which she is now the sole owner. Unable to make a decision, Isabel travels one last time to Albacete to see the lands, particularly the ancestral mansion she has not visited since her grandfather’s death.

Little by little, she uncovers long-buried family secrets as the past comes to light… and once again comes face to face with the ominous Quesada curse, as the melancholic melody of "Petite Fleur," —the song her uncle Saturnino always played on the clarinet—echoes through time.

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SPANISH (World) | Contraluz / Grupo Anaya
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