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The Volcano Lover, Susan Sontag's best-selling 1992 novel, retold the love story of Emma Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson with consummate power. In this enthralling audiobook - once again based on a real story - Sontag shows us our own country on the cusp of modernity. In 1876 a group of Poles led by Maryna Zalewska, Poland's greatest actress, travel to California to found a "utopian" commune. Maryna, who has renounced her career, is accompanied by her small son and husband, and in her entourage is a rising young writer who is in love with her.

En 1876, un grupo de polacos liderado por Maryna Zalezowska, la mayor actriz de Polonia, emigra a Estados Unidos y llega hasta California para fundar una «comuna utópica». La comuna termina por disolverse, Maryna se queda en el país, aprende inglés y ahora—con el nombre de Marina Zalenska—se forja una nueva carrera, incluso más triunfante, en los escenarios americanos, hasta convertirse en una diva comparable a Sara Bernhardt.