Summary
Arturo Perez Reverte: Isle of Sleeping Women
A novel about the sea, love and adventures in the Aegean during the Spanish Civil War. "Arturo Pérez-Reverte is the most impeccable novelist of contemporary Spanish literature." - El País April 1937. While civil war rages in Spain, Captain Miguel Jordan Kyriazis is given a secret mission to sink Russian ships carrying military aid to the Republic. In the operational base, on a small island in the Aegean Sea, the life of the Spanish captain will intertwine with the lives of the island's owner, Baron Katelios, and his seductive wife, who is desperately seeking an escape from her fate. Pérez-Reverte thus weaves the story of a dark love triangle, which unstoppably leads to a fatal ending, shrouded in conflicting passions, with the events of war in the background. There are also two spies in Istanbul, one nationalist and one republican, who maintain a friendly relationship despite being on opposite sides. In the stunning landscape of the Greek island, the web of fate intertwines and unravels before us, as an echo of the mythological story of Odysseus.
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