by Mika Waltari · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788425318580
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«Juan el peregrino» is the historical novel by Mika Waltari, published by Grijalbo in paperback (476 pages, in Spanish).
Juan, a young theologian of the 15th century, joins the Christian expedition attempting to liberate Byzantium from the Turkish siege. He falls prisoner to Sultan Murad and then to his son Mehmed, the future conqueror of Constantinople. He witnesses the end of an era and the birth of another marked by economic power and new violences.
Published in Finnish as «Nuori Johannes» (1981), this Spanish-language edition (1986) is translated by Pirkko-Merja Lounavaara and Ramón Garriga-Marquès. It belongs to the Johannes Angelos series.
For lovers of historical fiction and the Byzantine period; will also appeal to readers of Mika Waltari, author of «Sinuhé el egipcio».
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.
