by Almudena Grandes · Maxi-Tusquets · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483838532
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«El lector de Julio Verne» is the historical novel by Almudena Grandes, published by Maxi-Tusquets in paperback (432 pages, in Spanish).
Nino, son of a civil guard, spends the summer of 1947 in a village in the Sierra Sur de Jaén. He meets Pepe el Portugués, a stranger living in a mill, who introduces him to adventure novels. Between typing lessons, Nino understands that guerrillas are resisting in the mountains and that his father's enemies are not his own.
This novel is the second installment of the series «Episodios de una guerra interminable» by Almudena Grandes.
For readers of historical fiction about the Spanish postwar period; it was a high school reading for the ABAU in the Galician Community 2021-2022.
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."
