by Vladimir Bartol · Círculo de Lectores. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788422693369
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«Alamut» is the historical novel by Slovenian writer Vladimir Bartol, published by Círculo de Lectores in paperback (502 pages, in Spanish).
In the fortress of Alamut, Hasan Ibn Saba gathers the hashashins, a name that gave rise to the word assassin, to fight the Ottoman Empire through the illusion of paradise: young men, convinced they have visited the garden of Allah, lose their fear of death.
The work was originally published in 1938; this Spanish edition includes the translation by Mauricio Wacquez and Slavica Membrado.
For readers of historical fiction with an interest in the medieval Middle East and the legend of the sect of assassins.
Vladimir Bartol was a writer from the Slovene minority in Italy. He is best known for his 1938 novel Alamut, the most popular work of Slovene literature around the world, which has been translated into numerous languages.
