by Valerio Evangelisti · Random House Mondadori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789707802216
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«El Collar de Fuego» is the historical novel by Valerio Evangelisti, published by Random House Mondadori in paperback (458 pages, in Spanish).
The plot spans nineteenth-century Mexico through real characters freely recreated, whose lives intersect at different moments. It addresses the love-hate relationship between Mexico and the United States, the construction of a national identity, the war against the Texans, the country's modernization, the conflict between Benito Juárez and Maximilian, and the long dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz.
First installment of the Mexican Cycle; original Italian «Il collare di fuoco» (2005). Spanish edition published in 2007.
Readers of historical fiction and those interested in Mexico's past will find a narrative combining fiction and real events.
Valerio Evangelisti was an Italian writer of science fiction, fantasy, historical novels, and horror. He is known mainly for his series of novels featuring the inquisitor Nicolas Eymerich and for the Nostradamus trilogy, all bestsellers translated into many languages. Some of his books are seen as part of the body of literary works known as the New Italian Epic.
