by Rosa Montero · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420468990
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Historia del Rey Transparente» is Rosa Montero's historical adventure novel, published by Alfaguara in paperback (536 pages, in Spanish).
In the twelfth century, Leola, a teenage peasant girl, adopts the clothes of a fallen warrior and sets out to live as a man in a hostile world. Amid battles, encounters and medieval landscapes, the novel weaves together adventure, reflection on identity and fantastical elements, and also functions as a mirror of the present.
Novel winner of the 2007 Mandarache Prize and published in Alfaguara's HISPANICA collection.
Readers of historical fiction and adventure with fantastical elements, as well as followers of contemporary Spanish narrative.
Madrid journalist and novelist, El País columnist, author of History of the Transparent King, The Cannibal's Daughter and the Bruna Husky series.
