¿Puede ser una coincidencia que una muchacha muera a latigazos donde acaba de caer una bomba?¿Puede jugarse una partida de ajedrez usando como escenario una ciudad sitiada? El asedio es la novela mas enigmatica de Arturo Perez-ReverteCadiz, 1811. España lucha por su independencia mientras America lo hace por la suya. En la s calles de la ciudad mas liberal de Europa se libran batallas de otra indole. Mujeres jovenes aparecen desolladas a latigazos. En cada lugar, antesdel hallazgo del cadaver, ha caido una bomba francesa. Eso traza sobre la ciudad un mapa superpuesto y siniestro: un complejo tablero de ajedrez donde la mano de un jugador oculto -un asesino despiadado, el azar, las curvas de artilleria, la direccion de los vientos, el calculo de probabilidades- mueve piezas que deciden el destino de los protagonistas: un policia corrupto y brutal, la heredera de una importante casa comercial gaditana, un capitan corsario de pocos escrupulos, un taxidermista misantropo y espia, un enternecedor guerrillero de las salinas y un excentrico artillero a quien las guerras importan menos que resolver el problema tecnico del corto alcance de sus obuses.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Cadiz, year 1811. Young women are found dead, their throats severed by the cutting slash of a whip, a French bomb has exploded. These events create a sinister sketch over the city: a complex chess board where the hand of a mysterious player — a ruthless murderer, chance, the direction of the winds, the estimation of probabilities — moves the pieces that determine the fate of the characters: a savage and corrupt police officer, an unscrupulous privateer, a misanthropic taxidermist and spy, a guerilla fighter from the coast capable of inspiring the most tender feelings, and an eccentric artilleryman more concerned with finding a solution to the short range of his mortar and shells than with war.
This book title, El asedio / The Siege (Miniature Edition), ISBN: 9788490626610, by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, published by PRH Grupo Editorial (September 15, 2015) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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