The Frozen Heart, by Almudena Grandes. Hardback. First Edition in English, 2010. Translated by Frank Wynne. (Originally published in Spanish in 2007). Both book and dust-jacket are in Very Good condition. Just some slight age-toning to all pages. See photographs. "A classy blockbustera layered saga of family life, rivalry and redemption". The Guardian. In the small town of Torrelodones on the outskirts of Madrid, a funeral is taking place. Julio Carrión González, a man of tremendous wealth and influence in Madrid, has come home to be buried. But as the family stand by the graveside, his son Alvaro notices the arrival of a strangera young and attractive woman. No one appears to know who she is, or why she is there. Alvaros questions only deepen when the family inherits an enormous amount of money that is a surprise even to them. In his fathers study Alvaro discovers an old folder with letters sent to his father in Russia between 1941 and 1943, faded photos of people he never