by Gisbert Haefs · Planeta DeAgostini · tapa dura · ISBN 9788439587835
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«Aníbal: La novela de Cartago» is the historical novel by Gisbert Haefs, published by Planeta DeAgostini in hardcover (616 pages, in Spanish).
Antígono, a Greek settled in Carthage, narrates the life of Hannibal, the Carthaginian general who in the 3rd century BC dared to challenge the power of Rome. The account follows Hannibal's campaigns and portrays Carthage as a city-state rich in craftsmanship, trade and culture, with its political intrigues.
The original title is «Hannibal. Der Roman Karthagos» (1989); the translation is by José A. Alemany and the work belongs to the collection «Últimos éxitos de la novela histórica».
For readers interested in Antiquity, Carthage and biographies of great strategists.
Gisbert Haefs is a German writer in several genres and translator. He has written historical novels such as Alexander, won both the Deutscher Science Fiction Preis and Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis in science fiction, and placed at the Deutscher Krimi Preis for crime fiction. As a translator he worked on a much criticized effort at translating works of Jorge Luis Borges into German.
