by Mark Helprin · Ediciones B · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788440663900
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«Un soldado de la gran guerra» is the historical novel by Mark Helprin, published by Ediciones B in paperback (1052 pages, in Spanish).
In the summer of 1964, Alessandro Giuliani, an elderly Roman professor, walks towards Monte Prato with a young worker and tells him the story of his life. He recalls how he became a soldier, hero, prisoner and deserter during World War I, lost one family and found another by miracle, and takes spiritual stock of an existence marked by war and love.
Translation by Antoni Puigròs; the original title is A Soldier of the Great War. Ediciones B published this Spanish edition in 1996.
For readers of historical and war fiction; also used in reading clubs.
Mark Helprin is an American-Israeli novelist, journalist, conservative commentator, Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. While Helprin's fictional works straddle a number of disparate genres and styles, he has stated that he "belongs to no literary school, movement, tendency, or trend".
