by Jan Guillou · Libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782330032753
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«Les ingénieurs du bout du monde» is the historical novel by Jan Guillou, published by Actes Sud in paperback (747 pages, in French).
First installment of a saga following three sons of Norwegian fishermen involved in the great railway construction projects before World War I, amid the transformations that shook twentieth-century Europe.
Volume 1 of the series «Le siècle des grandes aventures», also known in Swedish as «Det stora århundradet». French edition translated from Swedish by Philippe Bouquet, published by Actes Sud in 2014.
For readers of historical fiction and family sagas set in Europe before World War I.
Jan Oskar Sverre Lucien Henri Guillou is a French-Swedish author, journalist and convicted spy. Guillou has been accused by some commentators of being an agent of the KGB Guillou's fame in Sweden was established during his time as an investigative journalist, most notably in 1973 when he and co-reporter Peter Bratt exposed a secret, immoral and illegal intelligence organization in Sweden, Informationsbyrån (IB). He is still active within journalism as a column writer for the Swedish evening tabloid Aftonbladet. Among his books are a series of spy fiction novels about a spy named Carl Hamilton, and a trilogy of historical fiction novels about a Knight Templar, Arn Magnusson. He is the owner of one of the largest publishing companies in Sweden, Piratförlaget, together with his wife, publisher Ann-Marie Skarp, and Liza Marklund.
