by Malcolm J. Bosse · Plaza Y Janes · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401321054
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«El señor de la guerra» is the historical novel by Malcolm J. Bosse, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (659 pages, in Spanish).
El señor de la guerra is set in China in 1927, a country shaken by the fall of the empire and by struggles among warlords vying for power. The protagonist, General Chang, is a cultured man of firm principles who tries to govern amid intrigues and threats, while the presence of foreigners adds tension to a conflict on which the nation's future depends.
The original work, The Warlord, was published in 1983. This edition is the first in Spanish, translated by Manuel Vázquez and Rosa M. Bassols.
For readers of historical fiction, adventure narratives, and stories set in Asia, with an interest in China in the first half of the twentieth century.
Malcolm Joseph Bosse was an American author of both young adult and adult novels. His novels are often set in Asia, and have been praised for their cultural and historical information relating to the character's adventures. Bosse mostly wrote historical fiction novels after the publication of The Warlord, which became a best-seller. The Warlord was set in China in the 1920s. He also won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1983.
