by Gisbert Haefs · Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788435060219
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«Raja» is the historical novel by Gisbert Haefs, published by Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana, S.A. in hardback (576 pages, in Spanish).
In «Raja», the stories of George Thomas, an Irishman who ends up aspiring to become a rajah, and Joao Saldanha, a Portuguese man seeking a relic of Saint Francis Xavier to redeem himself before the Inquisition, intertwine. Their quests lead them to the spirituality of India and the contradictions of colonialism.
It belongs to the Narrativas Históricas collection and won the Ciudad de Cartagena Prize for best book of 2002. Translation by Carlos Fortea.
Gisbert Haefs is a German writer in several genres and translator. He has written historical novels such as Alexander, won both the Deutscher Science Fiction Preis and Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis in science fiction, and placed at the Deutscher Krimi Preis for crime fiction. As a translator he worked on a much criticized effort at translating works of Jorge Luis Borges into German.
