by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester · Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423313648
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«La rosa de los vientos» is the contemporary fiction novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, published by Destino in paperback (270 pages, in Spanish).
The action takes place in the imaginary country of Minimuslandia and reconstructs in epistolary form the last days of the reign of Grand Duke Ferdinando Luis before he is dethroned by his cousin, Emperor Carlos Federico Guillermo. Torrente Ballester combines history, fantasy and satire in a reflection on power and the human condition.
First edition published in 1985 in Barcelona, in the Áncora y Delfín collection (no. 587).
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction, with a taste for political satire and epistolary plots.
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester was a Spanish writer associated with the Generation of '36 movement.
