by Leo Perutz · The Harvill Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780002710954
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Set in Spain during Wellington's Peninsular Campaign, the story follows German units holding the town of La Bisbal against Spanish guerrillas. The Marquis of Bolibar promises to deliver the town as well as settle his own score, and he sets in train an ingenious series of traps for the enemy. This paperback edition, published by Collins Harvill, Grafton St in 1990, offers 182 pages of historical fiction.
Leopold Perutz was an Austrian novelist and mathematician. Born in Prague, he lived in Vienna until the Nazi Anschluss in 1938, when he emigrated to Palestine.
