by Almudena Grandes · Círculo De Lectores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467249651
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«El lector de Julio Verne» is the historical novel by Almudena Grandes, published by Círculo de Lectores in paperback (353 pages, in Spanish).
Summer of 1947 in the Sierra Sur de Jaén. Nino, son of a civil guard, discovers adventure novels and befriends Pepe el Portugués, a stranger living in a mill. While learning typing at the cortijo de las Rubias, he understands that there is a war in the sierra and that his father's adversaries are not his own.
Second instalment of the saga «Episodios de una guerra interminable», focused on the guerrilla of Cencerro and the Trienio de Terror, in the Sierra Sur de Jaén (1947-1949).
High school reading for the ABAU in the Galician Community (2021-2022), also for readers of historical fiction.
María de la Almudena Grandes Hernández was a Spanish writer. Author of 14 novels and three short-story collections, her work has been translated into twenty languages and frequently adapted to film. She won the National Literature Prize for Narrative and the Prix Méditerranée among other honors. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called her "one of the most important writers of our time."
