What a pleasure when you find a book addictive enough not to stop reading, that picks you in your sofa hours and hours discovering adventures and characters of those that will always stay in your head! And when it is a historical novel, it is enjoyed if possible, because while you read and entertain yourself, you also grow up, discovering details of times that you may not know so much and characters with a hidden story.
We want to recommend four very addictive historical novels that will hook you from the beginning and cover very different periods. The Roman era, the Spanish twentieth century, world war II and the Golden Age in Seville are the historical moments to which we propose to travel with these four long -eating books and a lot of emotion.
‘A pen in the air’ (Alejandra Beigbedere)
‘A pen in the air’ (Grijalbo) It is Alejandra Beigbedere’s third novel, daughter of composer Manuel Alejandro. To the world of art and music is dedicated this period book whose protagonist is the Argentine, one of the most famous Spanish dancers of the first half of the 20th century. The novel begins shortly before his death when, sitting in the dressing room of a theater, he prepares to go out to dance and look back at his impressive career: Girl Prodigio since she was a girl, friend of Federico García Lorca, lover of the bullfighter Ignacio Sánchez Mejías … a life full of passion, art and disappointment in which she saved her enormous love for dance and the public in which, however, however, however, however, however, however, however, however.
Pages: 480
‘Herod El Grande’ (José Luis Corral and Antonio Piñero)
What do you know about Herod? Yes, that king who, according to the Bible, ordered all children under two years to be killed to take off the middle to the Messiah who had just born. Well, history is much more complex and this character did not get into that alleged decision, such as José Luis Corral and Antonio Piñero in ‘Herod the Great’ (Editions B). At the end of the 1st century, the chosen one as king of the Jews is Herod, who will remain on the throne for 36 years. At this time it will survive all kinds of spells and conspiracies, star extraordinary feats and commit terrifying acts. They will call him “Herod the Great” and his name will make history.
-Pages: 592
‘Ink and ash’ (Andrea Tomé)
‘Ink and ash’ (Grijalbo) It is set in the middle of World War II and offers an emotional history of courage, friendship, love and dreams broken by the conflict that changed Europe forever. In 1938, London lives oblivious to the true magnitude of the Nazi threat. For young people, war is still just a distant rumor. But in just two years, it becomes a reality impossible to ignore. Vera, a young journalist from the ‘Telegraph’, dreams of covering the conflict as a correspondent. However, she ran into the machismo of the time: they will not let her go to the front for being a woman. Determined not to be left behind, he offers as a war nurse, facing the rawness of combat and the risk of losing the man he loves.
Pages: 640
‘The apprentice’ (Jon Echanove)
Jon Echanove’s second novel is his first immersion in the historical genre and has chosen the Seville of the seventeenth century to light a text full of adventures and action that will hook you from the beginning. ‘The apprentice’ (editions b) It presents the lights and shadows of the Hispanic capital, in whose popular neighborhood of Triana Malvivan El Lagartija, El Manco and two twin brothers. All of them dedicate every day to begging coins or bread beggars until an unfortunate incident forces them to separate and the lizard will have to look for life alone. A flamenco merchant will appear in his life that suggests being his apprentice, but there is something much more murky in his proposal …
Pages: 464
