by Almudena Grandes · Maxi-Tusquets · tapa dura · ISBN 9788483837672
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«El lector de Julio Verne» is a historical novel by Almudena Grandes, published by Maxi-Tusquets in hardcover (424 pages, in Spanish).
Summer 1947: Nino, son of a Civil Guard, lives in a village in the Sierra Sur de Jaén. Pepe el Portugués, a stranger settled in a mill, becomes his friend. Between typing lessons at the cortijo de las Rubias and adventure novels, Nino discovers that a war is being waged in the sierra and that his father's enemies are not his own.
«El lector de Julio Verne» is the second novel in the saga «Episodios de una Guerra Interminable» by Almudena Grandes.
Historical novel for readers interested in the Spanish postwar period, the maquis and rural Spain of the 1940s.
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."
