Gran Café Boulevard

Travelling to Bilbao in June 1944, Alexander Rothweill witnesses young Pili Eguren lose her money to a thief, and oddly that loss unites them. He has grown wealthy faking papers for airmen and then for Nazis who pay more; Franco's forces killed her parents when she was a child. Over meals at the Gran Café Boulevard they become lovers who keep their histories secret. Forced out of Spain in 1951, they take refuge by the Braassem lake with his solitary brother.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

357 pages in the original

Genres

Love, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Spain, Netherlands, 1944–1951

First published

2003 by Querido

Author's age

60 when first published

ISBN

9789021472935 (original)