by Mark Helprin · Ediciones B. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788440627094
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«Un soldado de la Gran Guerra» is the historical novel by Mark Helprin, published by Ediciones B. in hardback (716 pages, in Spanish).
Alessandro Giuliani, son of a Roman lawyer, leads a privileged life among horses, mountains, and painting studies in Bologna until the First World War breaks out. Half a century later, in 1964, the elderly Alessandro tells his story to a young worker as they walk toward Monte Prato: a life of love, war, and loss.
Translation by Antoni Puigrós of the English original A Soldier of the Great War. Edition with illustrated dust jacket, winner of the Washington State Book Award in 1992.
For readers seeking a story set during the First World War, with the narrative ambition of Remarque and Hemingway.
Mark Helprin is an American-Israeli novelist, journalist, conservative commentator, Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. While Helprin's fictional works straddle a number of disparate genres and styles, he has stated that he "belongs to no literary school, movement, tendency, or trend".
