by Mercedes Salisachs · Booket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788427036314
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«Goodbye, España» is the historical novel by Mercedes Salisachs, published by Booket in paperback (352 pages, in Spanish).
The work begins on February 7, 1968, when Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, the «English queen», returns to Spain after thirty-seven years of exile to attend the baptism of her great-grandson, Prince Felipe. During the days she spends in Madrid, the queen recalls her life with Alfonso XIII: court intrigues, the anarchist attack on her wedding day, the departure from the country after the proclamation of the Republic and the king's infidelities. It also recreates her conversion to Catholicism in order to marry, her help to the most disadvantaged and the accusations of espionage and of a romance with the Duke of Lécera.
It won the Alfonso X the Wise Historical Novel Prize 2009 and belongs to the Historical Novel collection.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction who want to approach the figure of Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg and the court of Alfonso XIII from a literary perspective.
Mercedes Salisachs Roviralta was a Spanish writer and novelist. She began her career when she was a teenager and published more than thirty five novels. She wrote and published her last novel in 2013 at the age of 97. She is a recipient of the Premio Planeta de Novela.
