ABC talks with Arturo Pérez-Reverte about his novel “Sidi”, a book that covers the start of the legend of El Cid Campeador.

“Sidi” (Alfaguara), the latest novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte (Cartagena, 1951), writer and member of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), has just been published.

Sidi is Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, El Cid Campeador, at the time when his legend begins: his leadership, his sense of honor, courage, loyalty and dignity, but also of pride, plunder, blood, and the sword. A journey back through time to that Spain of hard men, with other ideals; men of courage and strategy in battle, in hopes and in fears... As the echo of the battle of Pinar de Tébar still echoes in my head, we speak.

Read the entire interview here: ABC CULTURA

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