Pérez-Reverte publishes his new novel ‘The Island of the Sleeping Lady’ on October 8

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MADRID, 19 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The author Arturo Pérez-Reverte will publish his new novel ‘La isla de la mujer dormida’ (Alfaguara) on October 8, a narrative “of sea, love and journey” set on an island within the western Greek Cyclades, in accordance with the writer.

“I at all times needed to write down a novel about trendy corsairs, and The Island of the Sleeping Lady lastly gave me the chance to take action. Furthermore, the Mediterranean and the Aegean Sea of ​​the Nineteen Thirties have been the proper setting for that,” defined the educational.

In April 1937, whereas the Civil Warfare was raging in Spain, service provider seaman Miguel Jordán Kyriazis was despatched by the insurgent aspect to clandestinely assault naval site visitors from the Soviet Union transporting army assist for the Republic.

On the base of operations, a small island within the Aegean Sea, the lifetime of the Spanish corsair will intersect in a murky triangle with that of the house owners, Baron Katelios and his spouse: a seductive mature lady who seeks, with chilly desperation, a method to escape her future.

Pérez-Reverte has bought greater than 27 million copies of his works worldwide. His newest novel, ‘The Closing Drawback’, printed by Alfaguara in September 2023, has already reached 300,000 readers in Spain and stays on the high of the lists.

With ‘Line of Hearth’, which bought greater than 400,000 copies, he was awarded the 2020 Critics’ Prize. As well as, after thirty years publishing in France, Pérez-Reverte and his work have develop into a part of {the catalogue} of the publishing home Gallimard, which is able to launch ‘The Italian’ subsequent September, at present unpublished in French.

Pérez-Reverte was born in Cartagena, Spain, in 1951. He was a battle reporter for twenty-one years and lined eighteen armed conflicts for newspapers and tv. With greater than 20 million readers worldwide and translated into forty languages, lots of his works have been tailored for movie and tv. He’s a member of the Royal Spanish Academy and the Affiliation of Naval Writers of France.