Description
El Grand Paloma Resort es un paraíso exuberante en la República Dominicana donde los huéspedes disfrutan de increíbles lujos y el personal siempre está dispuesto a complacer, pero solo hasta que los llevan al límite. Laura es gerente del Grand Paloma Resort. Es una mujer dominicana que ha llegado a donde está gracias a su esfuerzo. Está a pocas semanas de recibir un ascenso que le abrirá un camino hacia nuevas oportunidades. Pero su hermana menor, Elena, a quien ha cuidado desde la muerte de su madre, no parece cooperar. Elena ha hecho todo lo posible por estar a la altura de las expectativas de su hermana. Sin embargo, para escapar de la monotonía de atender a turistas ricos, se ha vuelto dependiente de las pastillas y las fiestas. Como niñera en el resort, está a merced de los huéspedes que le dan rienda suelta a sus peores impulsos y necesitan que alguien cuide a sus hijos mientras tanto. Después de un accidente, se cree que una niña a su cargo ha muerto, y Elena sabe que la harán responsable. En un bar frente a la playa, Elena se encuentra con el padre de la niña, quien le ofrece una obscena suma de dinero para poder estar a solas con dos niñas locales. Elena guarda el dinero para financiar su escape y, aunque reza para que nada les pase, las niñas desaparecen. Ambientada a lo largo de siete días, Grand Paloma Resort nos ofrece una historia inolvidable de clase, familia y comunidad, creando un intenso clímax en el que se revelan los verdaderos costos del lujo, y se exponen secretos largamente callados y verdaderos actos de amor. "Apasionante y estremecedora, la novela no solo cuenta una historia: te agarra por el cuello y no te deja ir". --Angie Cruz, autora de Cómo no ahogarse en un vaso de agua "Trepidante es quedarse corto para describir la segunda novela de Natera, Grand Paloma Resort (...). En pocas palabras, es una novela que no olvidaré pronto". --Elizabeth Acevedo, autora del bestseller Poet X "Un libro emocionante que examina incansablemente las lealtades y la pertenencia, y quién decide cómo sobrevives. Muy recomendable". --Cristina García, autora de Mapas difusos y Soñar en cubano "Con personajes cautivadores y una narrativa que te deja sin aliento desde la primera página, Natera nos ofrece una historia inolvidable e inesperada que pondrá patas arriba las suposiciones de los lectores sobre el poder, el placer y la redención moral". --Xochitl Gonzalez, autora de Olga muere soñando
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The Grand Paloma Resort is a lush paradise in the Dominican Republic where guests enjoy incredible luxury, and the staff is always eager to please--that is, until they are pushed to the brink.
Laura is a manager at the Grand Paloma Resort, a Dominican woman who has risen this far through sheer hard work. Her idea to pair "platinum" guests with a resort employee to attend to their every need has been wildly successful. She's mere weeks away from a promotion that will blaze a path off the resort, to a life of opportunity. If only her younger sister, Elena--who she's looked after since the death of their mother - could get with the program. Elena has tried her best to live up to her sister's expectations. To escape the drudgery of waiting on rich tourists, she's become increasingly dependent on pills and partying. As a babysitter at the resort, she's at the mercy of guests who travel to indulge their worst impulses and need someone else to watch their kids while they do so. Now, after an accident, a child in her charge is believed dead, and Elena knows she'll be held responsible. At a local beachfront watering hole, Elena runs into the child's father. He offers her an obscene amount of money to give him private time with two young local girls. Elena pockets the cash to fund her escape and prays she's gotten the girls out of harm's way. Set over the course of seven days, Grand Paloma Resort offers an unforgettable story of class, family, and community, building to an intense climax in which the true costs of luxury are laid bare, forcing Laura and Elena to reckon with long-held secrets and true acts of love.
Author: Cleyvis Natera
Publisher: Vintage Espanol
Published: 08/12/2025
Pages: 342
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN13: 9798890983688
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Women
- Fiction | Thrillers | General
- Fiction | Hispanic & Latino | General
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The Grand Paloma Resort is a lush paradise in the Dominican Republic where guests enjoy incredible luxury, and the staff is always eager to please--that is, until they are pushed to the brink.
Laura is a manager at the Grand Paloma Resort, a Dominican woman who has risen this far through sheer hard work. Her idea to pair "platinum" guests with a resort employee to attend to their every need has been wildly successful. She's mere weeks away from a promotion that will blaze a path off the resort, to a life of opportunity. If only her younger sister, Elena--who she's looked after since the death of their mother - could get with the program. Elena has tried her best to live up to her sister's expectations. To escape the drudgery of waiting on rich tourists, she's become increasingly dependent on pills and partying. As a babysitter at the resort, she's at the mercy of guests who travel to indulge their worst impulses and need someone else to watch their kids while they do so. Now, after an accident, a child in her charge is believed dead, and Elena knows she'll be held responsible. At a local beachfront watering hole, Elena runs into the child's father. He offers her an obscene amount of money to give him private time with two young local girls. Elena pockets the cash to fund her escape and prays she's gotten the girls out of harm's way. Set over the course of seven days, Grand Paloma Resort offers an unforgettable story of class, family, and community, building to an intense climax in which the true costs of luxury are laid bare, forcing Laura and Elena to reckon with long-held secrets and true acts of love.
Author: Cleyvis Natera
Publisher: Vintage Espanol
Published: 08/12/2025
Pages: 342
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN13: 9798890983688
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Women
- Fiction | Thrillers | General
- Fiction | Hispanic & Latino | General
About the Author
Cleyvis Natera es la autora de "Neruda on the Park". Nació en la República Dominicana, emigró a los Estados Unidos a los diez años y creció en la ciudad de Nueva York. Tiene una licenciatura de Skidmore College y una maestría en bellas artes de la Universidad de Nueva York. Su escritura ha recibido premios y becas de PEN America, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, los talleres de escritores de The Kenyon Review y el Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Vive con su esposo y sus dos hijos pequeños en Montclair, Nueva Jersey.