Italian
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Italian
14.99 €
"I have dreamed of writing this unthinkable and completely true story ever since my father told it to me as a child," says Arturo Perez-Reverte of his novel The Italian, which has sold several hundred thousand copies in the author's homeland. The real story of Italian combat swimmers who sank fourteen British ships - the story of the triumph of individuals over a powerful military machine against all odds - for many years told differently: Italians traditionally portrayed as stupid cowards, and Perez-Reverte wanted to restore justice. Italy was an ally of Germany in World War II, but this does not embarrass him: "In my novels, the boundary between hero and villain is always conventional. My characters could be on either side. Heroes are always ambiguous. And who does not understand this, let him go to the devil." Arturo Perez-Reverte - former military journalist, celebrated author of brilliant historical, military, adventure novels, translated into forty languages, the creator of the cycle of Captain Diego Alatrista, the owner of the most prestigious literary awards. His new novel - a story of personal valor: the courage of the Italian divers who conducted daring operations in Gibraltar, and the courage of a Spanish woman, the owner of a bookstore, who recognized in these people heroes in the classical, book sense of the word, wanted to fight alongside them and turned into a modern-day Nausikaia for the emerged from the darkness of the waters of Ulysses. "The Italian" - a dizzying military thriller, a hymn to the Mediterranean, an incredible story of love and fearlessness in the face of hopeless circumstances, a novel about heroism on either side of the front line.
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