by Valerio Massimo Manfredi · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497937337
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«Talos de Esparta» is the historical novel by Valerio Massimo Manfredi, published by DEBOLSILLO in paperback (368 pages, in Spanish).
In ancient Sparta, a nobleman must abandon his second son, Talos, on Mount Taygetus because he is weak. An old helot rescues him and educates him in the beliefs of his subjugated people, who await the liberating king Aristodemus. As an adult, Talos crosses paths with his brother Brito, an elite Spartan warrior, and both end up fighting together against the Persians threatening the Greek cities. After the war, Talos faces a mission that will decide his fate.
Translation by Celia Filipetto from the Italian. Work originally published as «Lo scudo di Talos». Best Seller collection, no. 496.
For readers of historical and adventure novels set in Ancient Greece, with echoes of the Greco-Persian Wars.
Valerio Massimo Manfredi is an Italian historian, writer, essayist, archaeologist and journalist.
