At the turn of the year, they usually take stock of all kinds and it is time to find out everything that succeeded in 2022, also in literature. We already know that the best-selling novel in our country last year was Rome is me of Santiago Postguillo.
The GFK consultancy has added the editions in Spanish and Catalan and all the formats in which the novel has been published to rule that has exceeded 180,000 copies sold.
Also, the novel It has been published in all Spanish-speaking countries. and has occupied the top positions on the sales lists of countries such as Mexico, Argentina, Colombia and Chile.
Posteguillo has established himself as an author of historical novels with this portrait of Julius Caesar whose first installment has been so well received. A novel that starts at that moment in which the Roman makes himself known to the people as a lawyer in a trial of enormous political significance against the senator Dolabella.
He dives back into his childhood and formative years and doesn’t miss his first military victory. Moments that are shaping the greatest strategist of the empire.
Without a doubt, it is Posteguillo’s most ambitious project that he already accumulates to his credit more than four and a half million historical novels sold of his prolific work.
Grateful and Delighted
Now he is immersed in the writing of a new installment of this saga about Julius Caesar. “I feel very grateful for the extraordinary reception of Rome is mewhich shows that readers share my fascination with the figure of Julius Caesar”, he assures.
“I’m looking forward to getting your hands on the next installment in the series, which I think will it will be even more exciting and it will show us a Caesar who has already come to power”, he assures.
“I had always wanted to write about Julius Caesar, but I felt that I should deserve to write about him. Only after more than 7,000 pages written about ancient Rome, only after I feel that I am beginning to have a global understanding of the Roman world, only then is it that I have felt capable enough to undertake this challenge”, he explains about his saga.
We’ll see if the next installment has the same reception.
