¿De dónde venimos?

Ángel Abad Silvestre writes books that tackle big ideas. His work, like ¿De dónde venimos?, invites readers to consider fundamental questions about our origins.

Peter Mayle was a British businessman turned author who moved to France in the 1980s. Born in Brighton, Sussex, the youngest of three children, Mayle and his parents moved to Barbados in the aftermath of World War II, where his father was transferred as a Colonial Office employee. Mayle returned to England after leaving school at 16 in Barbados. He relocated from Devon to the Lubéron, southern France, in the late 80s but his plans to write a novel were overtaken by an account of life in his new...