ANDROMEDA ROMANO LAX

From the author of The Spanish Bow comes a lush, harrowing novel based on the real life story of Rosalie Rayner Watson, one of the most controversial scientists—and mothers—of the 20th century “The mother begins to destroy the child the moment it’s born,” wrote the founder of behaviorist psychology, John B. Watson, whose 1928 parenting guide was revered as the child-rearing bible. For their dangerous and “mawkish” impulses to kiss and hug their child, “most mothers should be indicted for psychological murder.” Behave is the story of Rosalie Rayner, Watson’s ambitious young wife and the mother of two of his children. In 1920, when she graduated from Vassar College, Rayner was ready to make her mark on the world. Intelligent, beautiful, and unflappable, she won a coveted research position at Johns Hopkins assisting the charismatic celebrity psychologist John B. Watson. Together, Watson and Rayner conducted controversial experiments on hundreds of babies to prove behaviorist principles. They also embarked on a scandalous affair that cost them both their jobs—and recast the sparkling young Rosalie Rayner, scientist and thinker, as Mrs. John Watson, wife and conflicted, maligned mother, just another “woman behind a great man.” With Behave, Andromeda Romano-Lax offers a provocative fictional biography of Rosalie Rayner Watson, a woman whose work influenced generations of Americans, and whose legacy has been lost in the shadow of her husband’s. In turns moving and horrifying, Behave is a richly nuanced and disturbing novel about science, progress, love, marriage, motherhood, and what all those things cost a passionate, promising young woman

When Feliu Delargo is born in late-nineteenth-century Spain - in less than happy circumstances - he is born to a nation slipping from international power and struggling with its own fractured identity, caught between the chaos of post-empire and impending Civil War. Una novela epica que evoca la España de principios del siglo XX.

Ein kleines katalanisches Dorf zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts. Es ist Krieg, und von seinem Vater bleibt dem kleinen Feliu Delargo nichts als sein Cellobogen, mit dem er seine unbandige Leidenschaft fur die Musik entdeckt. Schon mit siebzehn geht Feliu als Cellist an den spanischen Hof nach Madrid. Dort begegnet er Justo Al-Cerraz, einem exzentrischen Pianisten, mit dem ihn eine lebenslange Freundschaft und Rivalitat verbindet - und die Liebe zu der Geigerin Aviva. Der Bogen des Cellisten erzahlt von der faszinierenden Karriere eines Hochbegabten und lasst ein halbes Jahrhundert spanischer Geschichte lebendig werden.Ein kleines katalanisches Dorf zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts. Es ist Krieg, und von seinem Vater bleibt dem kleinen Feliu Delargo nichts als sein Cellobogen, mit dem er seine unbandige Leidenschaft fur die Musik entdeckt. Schon mit siebzehn geht Feliu als Cellist an den spanischen Hof nach Madrid. Dort begegnet er Justo Al-Cerraz, einem exzentrischen Pianisten, mit dem ihn eine lebenslange Freundschaft und Rivalitat verbindet - und die Liebe zu der Geigerin Aviva. Der Bogen des Cellisten erzahlt von der faszinierenden Karriere eines Hochbegabten und lasst ein halbes Jahrhundert spanischer Geschichte lebendig werden.

'I was almsot born Happy.' So begins "The Spanish Bow" and the remarkable history of Feliu Delargo, who just misses being 'Feliz' by a misunderstanding at his birth, which he barely survives.The accidental bequest of a cello bow from his dead father sets Feliu on the course of becoming a musician, unlikely given his beginnings in a dusty village in Catalonia. When he is compelled to feel to anarchist Barcelona, his education in mucis, life, and politics begins. But it isn't until he arrives at the court of the embattles monarchy in Madrid that passion enters the composition. As Feliu embarks on affairs, friendships, and rivalries, the tensions propelling Spain and the larger world toward catastrophe crescendo and critical choices must be made."The Spanish Bow" is a haunting fugue of music, politics, and passion set against half a century of Spanish history, form the tail end of the nineteenth century up through the Spanish Civil War and World War II.

En una petita població catalana, a finals del segle XIX, el petit Feliu Delargo hereta un objecte que li obrirà camins del tot inesperats: l'arquet d'un violoncel. Un temps despres, l'ira d'un terrat

Relato épico que retrata los principales acontecimientos culturales y políticos del siglo XX. Feliu Delargo hereda al nacer, en 1892, el arco de violonchelo de su padre, hecho que irremediablemente determinara su futuro: con el tiempo se convierte en un musico de gran prestigio y gracias a su brillante carrera llegara a tratar con algunos de los personajes mas influyentes de la escena artistica y politica de la Europa de entreguerras. La aparicion de una joven violinista italiana de oscuro pasado, sin embargo, alterara su destino, asi como el de sus allegados. Feliu experimentara entonces las agridulces consecuencias del amor, mientras a su alrededor el mundo, abocado a la irracionalidad de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, se desmorona inexorablemente.