by Almudena Grandes · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483833889
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«El lector de Julio Verne» is the historical novel by Almudena Grandes, published by Tusquets Editores in paperback (424 pages, in Spanish).
Nino, a nine-year-old boy and son of a Civil Guard, lives in the barracks house of a village in the Sierra Sur of Jaén. In the summer of 1947 he meets Pepe el Portugués, a stranger settled in a mill who becomes his role model, and discovers a new world thanks to adventure novels. While taking typing lessons at the cortijo de las Rubias, he understands that a war is being waged in the sierra and that his father's enemies are not his own.
Second installment of the saga «Episodios de una guerra interminable» by Almudena Grandes, subtitled «La guerrilla del Cencerro y el Trienio del Terror. Jaén, Sierra Sur, 1947-1949». Published in 2012 in the Andanzas collection of Tusquets Editores.
For readers of historical fiction and contemporary Spanish narrative who want to approach the anti-Franco resistance through the childlike gaze of its protagonist.
María de la Almudena Grandes Hernández was a Spanish writer. Author of 14 novels and three short-story collections, her work has been translated into twenty languages and frequently adapted to film. She won the National Literature Prize for Narrative and the Prix Méditerranée among other honors. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called her "one of the most important writers of our time."
