Hard Bed Hotel - Ayala, Edie
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A humorous romance with a delightfully unexpected end. A lovelorn cemetery caretaker is sure that a recent earthquake has just unearthed the ghost of Jhonny Pretty, Chile's famous 70s rockstar. He's Jhonny alright, but he's definitely not a ghost. Astrid de las Nieves leads an unremarkable life in her job at Santiago's General Cemetery, where she has worked for decades cleaning tombs, watering flowers and conversing with the dearly departed. Nothing is out of the ordinary until the day that Jhonny Pretty's ghost silently glides past - to make Astrid's dream come true. Although he's been…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
A humorous romance with a delightfully unexpected end. A lovelorn cemetery caretaker is sure that a recent earthquake has just unearthed the ghost of Jhonny Pretty, Chile's famous 70s rockstar. He's Jhonny alright, but he's definitely not a ghost. Astrid de las Nieves leads an unremarkable life in her job at Santiago's General Cemetery, where she has worked for decades cleaning tombs, watering flowers and conversing with the dearly departed. Nothing is out of the ordinary until the day that Jhonny Pretty's ghost silently glides past - to make Astrid's dream come true. Although he's been reduced to singing for pennies at Slaughterhouse Square, Jhonny is very much alive. After the earthquake destroys his apartment, his only choice is to take up residence at the family mausoleum. Astrid sets a plan in motion to seduce Jhonny's ghost and Jhonny plays along for all it's worth. Perspective is skewed through the lens of desire. The thin line between the living and the dead is blurred, and nothing is as it seems - rockstar is ghostly indigent, pickpocket is tourism executive, shop owner is purveyor of saints, con artist is plastic surgeon and meddling ghost is guardian angel. Everything goes wrong but maybe it's right, as heaven and earth settle into an unexpected juxtaposition in this twisted Latin tale that is doused with humor and magic realism.
Autorenporträt
"Our stories are our most valuable asset. They define us. They are our legacy." Edie Ayala is a baby boomer from a small logging town in British Columbia. As a girl, she once broke into a neighbour's house to play on their typewriter. She was the creative fort-builder, the abandoned mine-shaft explorer and the tree climber. She has never lost this spirit of curiosity and the search for the small things that might change a day... or a life. Just before Y2K, she made a trip to South America and it was a turning point. Married to a Chilean from the Atacama region, they decided to make Santiago, Chile their home and they've been there ever since. Their grown children are all settled in different cities in Canada and the UK. Edie writes character-driven novels. Her first, South of Centre is a saga sent in nothern Chile in and around the time of the Pinochet regime. With all of its myths and superstitions, it seeks to get to the bottom of various tangled family relationships. The second Hard Bed Hotel is a humorous love story where confusion between the living and the dead takes you on an eventful romp through Santiago's more 'popular' neighborhoods. Her third novel, Threads takes a hard look at the global business of fast fashion. Two women on opposite ends of the globe are connected through love and loss.