Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
It is the summer of 1954 in Independence, Missouri, hometown of former President Harry Truman. Against the backdrop of a top-secret nuclear program that plunged the world into a fearful new age, a young woman has a secret of her own: an unwanted pregnancy that threatens to derail her life and the lives of those she loves.Anne is an anomaly among women of her time. She is strong-willed, independent, and at odds with society’s unbending rules. As she leaves her baby behind in an unwed mother’s home, society, too, is leaving behind an antiquated scientific system.Noah’s Quark is a multigenerational tale that brings together a rich cast of characters-lives different and yet surprisingly entangled-including Orville, Anne’s heartbroken father and the town baker; Jimmy, the meticulous train station janitor abandoned at birth and raised in an institution; Isa, a particle physicist searching for her own secret origins; and Harry Truman, the man who unleashed the power hidden inside Einstein’s famous equation and paved the way for a fuzzy new science known as quantum mechanics.
