by Mika Waltari · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788422647515
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«El Ángel Sombrio: el Sitio de Constantinopla» is the historical novel by Mika Waltari, published by Círculo de Lectores in paperback (400 pages).
In 1453, Turkish troops lay siege to Constantinople, a city at the crossroads between East and West. Between two worlds and facing a seemingly sealed fate, the population struggles to find their own story.
First installment of the Johannes Angelos series. The novel was originally published in 1952 as Johannes Angelos; this Spanish edition, translated by J. A. González, appeared in 1994.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the Middle Ages, the Byzantine Empire, and the fall of Constantinople.
Mika Toimi Waltari was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel The Egyptian. He was extremely productive; Besides his novels he also wrote poetry, short stories, crime novels, plays, essays, travel stories, film scripts, and rhymed texts for comic strips by Asmo Alho.
