Download or read book The Bitter Taste of Time written by Bea Gonzalez and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love and sorrow and men on Fridays: a fragrant, earthy tale of passions and Spanish women. After the absurd but tragic death of her husband, Maria Encarna turns her granite house in northern Spain into a pension, opening it up to strangers with their colorful stories of demons and wars.