by Frank Yerby · Plaza & Janes · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401490132
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«Mientras la ciudad duerme» is the historical novel by Frank Yerby, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (495 pages, in Spanish).
Stephen Fox, an Irish immigrant who arrives alone on the banks of the Mississippi, makes his way with cunning and a good hand at cards until he builds up a plantation and a great house. The narrative runs from 1826 to the end of the American Civil War, with slavery and the values of the South as a backdrop.
First edition of 1982, translated by Ernesto Batlle, in the Los JET collection from Plaza & Janés.
For lovers of historical fiction and stories set in the southern United States during the 19th century.
Frank Garvin Yerby was an American writer, best known for his 1946 historical novel The Foxes of Harrow.
