by Mika Waltari · Styria De Edcns Y Publ, S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788493473174
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«La reina del baile imperial» is the historical novel by Mika Waltari, published by Styria in paperback (253 pages, in Spanish).
In 1809, with Napoleonic Europe in full ferment, Finland is incorporated into Russia as a Grand Duchy. The young Tsar Alexander I travels to the Finnish Diet and meets at a ball Ulla Möllersvärd, daughter of a governor, an idealist and defender of freedom. Between them is born a love marked by the monarch's past, her ideals and the political tensions of the court.
The original novel, Tanssi yli hautojen, was published in 1944; this Spanish edition appeared in 2006.
For readers of historical fiction and romances set in the nineteenth century, with an interest in Tsarist Russia and European political changes.
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.
