by Rosa Montero · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789587043624
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«Historia del rey transparente» is Rosa Montero's adventure and fantasy novel, published by Alfaguara in paperback (534 pages, in Spanish).
In the twelfth century, Leola, a young peasant woman, puts on the armour of a dead warrior and adopts a male identity to survive. Rosa Montero's novel, an adult fable with fantastical elements, reflects on human identity and the modern world in an epic medieval adventure, and leaves an open ending for the reader to resolve.
The novel was awarded the Premio Mandarache in 2007.
For readers of historical, adventure and literary fantasy fiction with an interest in identity and a meticulously recreated Middle Ages.
Madrid journalist and novelist, El País columnist, author of History of the Transparent King, The Cannibal's Daughter and the Bruna Husky series.
