by Mika Waltari · Diario El País, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498152531
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«El ángel sombrío» is the historical novel by Mika Waltari, published by Diario El País, S.A. in paperback (362 pages, in Spanish).
Constantinople, 1453: the Byzantine capital resists the Ottoman siege in its final days. Among the defenders stands out Giovanni Angelos, an enigmatic figure who has known wealth and slavery and whom all respect and fear. Giovanni Angelos must still face love and a portent of death before the city falls.
The novel was originally published in 1952 as «Johannes Angelos», translated by Vicente de Artadi. This edition belongs to the El País historical novel collection (no. 49).
For fans of historical fiction and medieval fiction interested in the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire.
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.
