by Gisbert Haefs · Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788435060158
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«El jardín de Amílcar» is the historical novel by Gisbert Haefs, published by Edhasa in hardcover (432 pages, in Spanish).
In the garden of Hamilcar Barca, father of Hannibal, an influential Roman merchant is found murdered. The young military officer Titus Letilius Mucro, sent to Carthage with official powers, investigates the crime in a city at tense peace with Rome. The plot extends to Hispania and touches the general Hamilcar himself, in a narrative of intrigue, espionage and power in the ancient Mediterranean.
It belongs to the Narrativas Históricas collection by Edhasa, translated by Carlos Fortea. It shares characters with the novel «Aníbal» by Gisbert Haefs.
For readers of historical fiction interested in Antiquity, the Roman and Carthaginian world, and the work of Gisbert Haefs.
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.
