by Jean Lartéguy · Ediciones G.P. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401434327
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«Los tambores de bronce» is the war novel by Jean Lartéguy, published by Ediciones G.P. in paperback (440 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Indochina, the novel draws on the legend of the bronze drums, great cauldrons whose sound recalls thunder. According to tradition, General Ma Yuan placed them beside waterfalls so that the mountain peoples might hear the armies of the Son of Heaven; against this backdrop unfolds a story of war and its consequences.
Translation by Domingo Pruna; cover by C. Sanroma. Edition in the Gran Reno Novela collection; the work was originally published in 1967 as «Les Tambours de Bronze».
For readers of historical and war fiction, especially those interested in Southeast Asia.
Jean Lartéguy was the pen name of Jean Pierre Lucien Osty, a French writer, journalist, and former soldier.
