by Gisbert Haefs · Ediciones El País, · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498152142
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«Aníbal» is the historical novel by Gisbert Haefs, published by Ediciones El País in paperback (639 pages, in Spanish).
Antígono, a Greek banker settled in Carthage, narrates the life of Hannibal: his childhood alongside his father Hamilcar in the campaigns of Spain and his rise to command of the Carthaginian army. The novel follows the campaigns of the strategist who defied Rome in the 3rd century BC, with battles and political intrigues of the rivalry between the two Mediterranean powers.
Translation by José Antonio Alemany; originally published in German as «Hannibal. Der Roman Karthagos» in 1989.
For readers of historical fiction set in Antiquity and fictionalized biographies of great military strategists.
Gisbert Haefs is a German writer in several genres and translator. He has written historical novels such as Alexander, won both the Deutscher Science Fiction Preis and Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis in science fiction, and placed at the Deutscher Krimi Preis for crime fiction. As a translator he worked on a much criticized effort at translating works of Jorge Luis Borges into German.
