by Annemarie Selinko · Entrelibros Editorial · tapa dura · ISBN 9788493388331
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«Désirée» is the romantic-historical novel by Annemarie Selinko, published by Entrelibros Editorial in hardcover (607 pages, in Spanish).
Désirée Clary, daughter of a silk merchant from Marseille, recounts in her diary how she becomes Napoleon's first love and witnesses the intrigues of the court. Her humble origins stay with her as her destiny leads her to Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, future king of Sweden, in Napoleonic Europe. The novel is based on historical events.
«Désirée» has sold more than 10 million copies and has been translated into more than 25 languages.
For readers of historical and romantic fiction interested in the Napoleonic court and early 19th-century Europe.
Annemarie Selinko was an Austrian novelist who wrote a number of best-selling books in German from the 1930s through the 1950s. Although she had been based in Germany, in 1939 at the start of World War II she took refuge in Denmark with her Danish husband, but then in 1943, they again became refugees, this time to Sweden.
