Historic Fiction
Brand: Galaxia Gutenberg
EAN: 9788419075611
Exiled Shadow
In this vibrant mosaic of voices, sources, and stories, the protagonist, known only as the Nomadic Misanthrope, leaves communist Romania and is reunited with his friend Gunther, an unrepentant Marxist exiled in Berlin. Their meeting sparks a spirited dialogue that endures throughout the Nomadic Misa..
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Brand: Urano World
EAN: 9788416517718
The Betrayals
If your life was based on a lie, would you risk it all to tell the truth? At Montverre, an ancient and elite academy hidden high in the mountains, society’s best and brightest are trained for excellence in the grand jeu—the great game—an arcane and mysterious competition that combines music, art, m..
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Brand: Duomo
EAN: 9788418128851
Remarkable Creatures
On the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast, poor and uneducated Mary learns that she has a unique gift: "the eye" to spot ammonites and other fossils no one else can see. When she uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near her home, she sets the religious community ..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788418757396
The Solitude of the Inca
Starting from a detailed reading of the Chronicle of the Indies that Inca Garcilaso dedicated to Hernando de Soto's expedition through Florida, this splendid historical novel recreates what could have been the last meeting between Garcilaso and one of the survivors of that expedition, Captain Gonzal..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433978554
Limonov
This biographical novel or novelised biography reconstructs the life of a real character who seems as if he has come straight out of fiction. A rash and extravagant character, with an almost implausible life story allows the author to sketch a convincing portrait of Russia in the last fifty years an..
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Brand: Sélector
EAN: 9786074531237
The Borodin I. Love and Honor
The Borodin I narrates the extraordinary history of an aristocratic family of Imperial Russia, at the time of the Tsars. / Los Borodin I narra la extraordinaria historia de una familia aristócrata de la Rusia Imperial, en la época de los zares.El general ruso Dimitri Borodin muere en la batalla con..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788411310956
Caesar's Enemies
In the middle of the 1st century BC, Rome was the greatest power in the Mediterranean area. However, the continuous expansion and conquest, demographic and economic growth and the crisis of the state model had fragmented Roman society, greatly increasing social polarization. The Senate was divided i..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788417558772
The Thirds do not Give Up
This book is based on the testimony of the Spanish captain Alonso Vázquez, who was a direct witness of the Fall of Antwerp (1584-85) and of the subsequent Battle of Empel, two glorious episodes of our history that with the passage of time have fallen in oblivion. / Este libro se basa en el valioso ..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433901712
First Blood
On the first page of this book we find a man facing a firing squad. We are in the Congo, in 1964. That man, kidnapped by the rebels along with fifteen hundred other Westerners, is the young Belgian consul in Stanleyville. His name is Patrick Nothomb and he is the future father of the writer. Startin..
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Brand: Duomo
EAN: 9788418538681
The Oceans Between Us
London just suffered a bombing. Enemy planes drift away, and in the city, people are struggling to win back what's left of their lives. In the midst of the chaos, a woman wanders alone, injured. She doesn't remember anything, not even her name. The only thing she knows is that she has lost something..
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Brand: Atico de los Libros
EAN: 9788417743611
The Mercies
The women in an Arctic village must survive a sinister threat after all the men are wiped out by a catastrophic storm in this "gripping novel inspired by a real-life witch hunt. . . . Beautiful and chilling" (Madeline Miller, bestselling author of Circe).When the women take over, is it sorcery or po..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788418709159
Defeat the English Corsair
Much has been written about the supposed disaster of the so-called Invincible Armada, when there was another British fleet which failed miserably in its assault on the Spanish coasts in 1589. That fiasco led Elizabeth I of England to punish the corsair Drake, responsible for the defeat, with a ban o..
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