A través de un túnel

El general Escipión Emiliano, el más insigne ciudadano de la Roma de la segunda mitad del siglo II a. C., recoge en estas memorias sus cincuenta y seis años de una vida dedicada a la búsqueda del bien común por encima del beneficio personal. Por las páginas de este relato desfilan personajes de la talla del historiador Polibio, el comediógrafo Terencio, el poeta Lucilio, el filósofo Panecio de Rodas y su incondicional amigo, y experto en Platón, Cayo Lelio. Evoca momentos cruentos y a la vez gloriosos, como la batalla de Pidna, la destrucción de Cartago o la conquista de Numancia,...

William Watson, nacido en Edimburgo, se inscribe en la gran tradición de novelistas históricos escoceses que arranca con Walter Scott. Durante muchos años fue editor de la prestigiosa revista literaria The Scotsman, y es autor de varias obras dramáticas que han subido con éxito a las tablas en teatros británicos. Entre su obra narrativa destacan, junto a Beltrán, un templario en el exilio, El caballero del puente.

Lila is a simply unforgettable adventure. The past is evoked with affection and authentic compassion, at times infused with a little bit of humor […] It is not easy, and much less common, to find a text that is so balanced yet moving at the same time. The story has a profound impact without indulging in melodrama. In her letters, the main character holds on to her memories like a shipwreck survivor clings to hope. Prats Sariol has given us an epistolary novel and a crime novel all in one. The murder mystery is not solved until the very end; it is only in the last line that we find out how...

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