![]() Certainly Asensi usually appears below Carlos Ruiz Zafón and Ildefonso Falcones on the annual lists of Spain’s bestselling authors, but then both Falcones and Ruiz Zafón made their names largely from a single, doorstopping novel, while Asensi has published eight novels since 1999 at a rate of more or less one a year, so maybe there’s a cumulative effect? In any case, hers is an interesting case study for considering the whole question of how a national bestselling author becomes a global bestselling author, especially given the complexities of Spain’s cultural geopolitics. Silk Road.Damn! I wrote this whole post and poof! it was gone … so … I promised a couple of months back to talk a bit more about Matilde Asensi, who has been one of Spain’s bestselling authors for around 10 years now, but who I’d never come across until I began looking at Spain’s bestseller lists for an article I was researching earlier this year.Īsensi is described on her website as ‘la autora española más leída’ (the most-read Spanish author), although it’s slightly unclear whether that’s a gender-inflected claim or not. Once again, Ottavia Salina, accompanied by Farag Boswell, the historian of the Greco-Roman Museum of Alexandria whom we already met in the first book, sets out to solve the mysteries that date back to the same XNUMXst century, the same period. The successful The Last Caton deserved a second part that took fourteen years to arrive, also becoming a great success. An epic finishing touch for the intense journey that Asensi proposes to us with his only trilogy so far.Ĭomplete Isabel Allende's Spanish Golden Age saga with The conspiracy of Cortés. The key piece of the story falls on the treasure map of Hernán Cortés, through which the Curvos seek to overthrow the king of Spain. The conspiracy of Cortés (2012)Īnnihilating the Curvo becomes Catalina Solís' motive to unmask the merchant family, this time from the New World. A book that serves as a great testimony of a time as miserable and splendid as was the Spanish Golden Age.ĭiscover Revenge in Seville. Would you like to read Tierra Firm? Vengeance in Seville (2010)Īfter the adventures of Tierra firme, Catalina Solís returned to Spain in 1607, more specifically to the city of Seville, where she proposed to assassinate the Curvo, an important family of merchants from the New World. ![]() After spending two years on a desert island, Catalina becomes Martín Ojo de Plata, one of the most vengeful smugglers in the Caribbean. ![]() There is the story of a woman, Catalina Solís, who must adopt the personality of her brother Martín, killed by some English pirates during an expedition to the New World. ![]() Known as the Martín Ojo de Plata trilogy, or the great Spanish Golden Age Saga, Tierra Firme became the first volume of a new challenge for the author. Throughout her bibliography, Matilde Asensi had addressed the historical mysteries of the Amazon jungle, China or medieval Europe, but she still had a pending framework: travel to America during the seventeenth century. Martin Silver Eye Trilogy Firm ground (2007) An adventure against the clock to which is added the persecution by a mafia that calls itself the Green Band and the imperial eunuchs. After arriving in the Asian country, the young woman will discover that after her death the search for the treasure of the First Emperor could be hidden, whose tomb lies in the city of Xián. The story begins with the discovery of the protagonist, Ana, a Spanish teacher in Paris, of her husband's death in Shanghai. Everything under the sky (2006)Īsensi makes us travel to that China full of secrets and hidden treasures displayed on the epic map of All under the sky. Of all the books by Matilde Asensi, pilgrimage It is, more than a story as such, a perfect excuse to explore the towns and customs of an environment such as that of the Jacobean Route during the XNUMXth century. Through the eyes of the rebel Jonás, son of the militant Galcerán de Born, we know a The Santiago Way full of rites that the young protagonist sets out to fulfill together with an ancient Templar after making a promise to initiatory chivalry. After investigating his brother's research on the origin of the Yatiris sect and the Aymara language (so archaic that it could simulate computer language), Arnao proposes to travel to Bolivia to discover the origin of the curse that could have caused his brother's illness. The protagonist of the novel is Arnau, a hacker from Barcelona whose brother suffers from Cotard's syndrome (or denial syndrome). More exotic in character and set in our days, The lost origin, links past and present through a Adventure novel only.
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