by Hilary Mantel · Ediciones B · tapa dura · ISBN 9788440644985
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«La Sombra de la Guillotina» is a historical novel by Hilary Mantel, published by Ediciones B in hardback (808 pages, in Spanish).
Paris, 1789. The city lives in a climate of hunger and protests; the young lawyer Georges-Jacques Danton tries to make a place for himself in that scenario. Alongside him, Maximilien Robespierre and Camille Desmoulins seek their role in a revolutionary process that transforms everything. The novel explores power and what it costs to wield it.
Translation by Antoni Puigròs of the original «A Place of Greater Safety», winner of the Sunday Express Book of the Year in 1992.
For readers of historical fiction who wish to approach the French Revolution through Danton, Robespierre and Desmoulins.
Dame Hilary Mary Mantel was a British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories. Her first published novel, Every Day Is Mother's Day, was released in 1985. She went on to write 12 novels, two collections of short stories, a memoir, and numerous articles and opinion pieces.
