by Antonio Iturbe · Pan Macmillan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781529063349
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«The Prince of the Skies» is the biographical novel by Antonio Iturbe, published by Pan Macmillan in paperback (560 pages, in English).
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, before creating The Little Prince, dreams of being a pilot, a vocation that clashes with his aristocratic origins and with the woman he loves. Antoine, along with Jean Mermoz and Henri Guillaumet, opens aerial postal routes that will make history, while in interwar Europe the conflict that will mark his destiny is brewing.
The English translation of the original Spanish is by Lilit Zekulin Thwaites. The original edition of The Prince of the Skies won the Premio Biblioteca Breve in 2017.
This book is intended for readers of historical fiction and fictionalized biographies, especially those who want to learn about the life of the author of The Little Prince.
Antonio González Iturbe is a Spanish journalist, writer and professor, who won Biblioteca Breve award in 2017. He is the director of the cultural magazine Librújula and collaborator of the Spanish journal, La Vanguardia. His novel La bibliotecaria de Auschwitz/The Librarian of Auschwitz, published in 2012, has been published in 35 languages. In the United Kingdom it was the best-selling translated book of the year in 2019.
