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Ana is a brilliant, headstrong, and compassionate mayor of a small city, with a lovely husband, daughter, and granddaughter. Yet there has been a lingering piece of her life missing - a thread of happiness she hasn't been able to pull on for most of her life. Zeno, a lifelong bachelor, bookstore owner, intrepid traveler, and theoretical physicist determined to figure out how to turn back time. Handsome, clever, and kind, he is often questioned about his failure to 'settle down.' Over the years, they have woven together an impossible and inexhaustible love. Their paths constantly intertwining, from a chance meeting on a boat to clumsily bumping into each other in the city they share. Eventually keeping in touch by letters and late-night phone calls across the world.

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That this story starts with "CHAPTER 20" will likely make readers pause to wonder if an earlier volume might have been missed. But worry not, and read on. A half-dozen pages later shows "CHAPTER 19," revealing the narrative is moving in reverse. For 37 years, Ana and Zeno have lived their separate lives, staying connected across thousands of miles through letters and phone calls. Ana married a gentle, caring man, had a headstrong daughter, and now has a charming granddaughter. She became a formidable but beloved mayor for multiple terms, only recently, finally, retiring. Zeno could never settle, traveling around the world, usually by sea, never able to commit to any single relationship or location, a physicist working on a seemingly endless dissertation proving the reversibility of time. Almost four decades since their initial maritime meeting, Ana and Zeno are finally ready to cross the bridge, emotionally and literally, into the utter unknown. Spanish comics maker Lafebre's work is a spectacular visual feast, gorgeously detailed to every corner of every panel, meticulously hued in striking palettes that denote time and distance, gratifyingly replete with expressions that catch every emotion possible. The stunning architecture, the high seas, three widowed sisters and their croissants, a formula-laden blackboard, a virtual dance apart but oh so together--Lafebre ensures magic on every page.

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Jordi Lafebre is a Spanish illustrator and comic book artist active in the Franco-Belgian market. Lafebre was born in Barcelona. After studying drawing at the University of Barcelona and comics at the Joso School in Barcelona, he started working in 2001 as an illustrator for advertisements and various magazines in Spain (including Nobanda, Penthouse Comix and Wet Comix). In the children's magazine Mister K, he published El mundo de Judy on a script by Toni Font. His meeting with the Belgian scriptwriter Zidrou, who lives in Spain, will be decisive: with him, Jordi Lafebre drew some short stories published in Le Journal de Spirou, which would be included in two collective albums La vieille dame qui n'avait jamais joué au tennis et autres nouvelles qui font du bien (The old lady who never played tennis and other good news) and Joyeuses nouvelles pour petits adultes et grands enfants (Happy news for small adults and big children), then launch into one-shots with Lydie and La Mondaine , before starting the series Les Beaux étés (Glorious Summers). In parallel to his career as an author, Jordi Lafebre is a teacher at the Joso School in Barcelona.