a story “of sea, love and adventure” set on an island in the western Greek Cyclades, on October 8.

I always wanted to write a modern-day pirate novel, and “La isla de la mujer dormida” finally gave me the opportunity to do so. Besides, the Mediterranean and the Aegean Sea of the 1930s was the perfect setting for it,” the academic explained.

In April 1937, while the Civil War was raging in Spain, the merchant seaman Miguel Jordán Kyriazis was sent by the rebel side to clandestinely attack the naval traffic from the Soviet Union carrying military aid for the Republic. Pérez-Reverte has sold more than 27 million copies of his works worldwide. His latest novel, “El problema final,” published by Alfaguara in September 2023, already has 300,000 readers in Spain and continues to top the charts.

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