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La berlina de Prim
2012
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3.03
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364
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Principios de septiembre de 1873. La Primera República, con apenas nueve meses de vida, agoniza. El periodista Patrick Boyd llega a España con una misión: aclarar el asesinato, tres años antes, de suamigo el general Prim, presidente del Gobierno y el hombre más poderoso del país. Patrick, hijo ilegítimode una joven andaluza y del irlandés Robert Boyd, fusilado en Málaga al lado de Torrijos y cincuenta compañeros, está decidido a descubrir quién o quiénes maquinaron el magnicidio que cambió el destino de España. Su trepidante búsqueda detectivesca, con epicentro en Madrid, lo lleva desde Sevilla a Francia, y termina otra vez por tierras andaluzas, en vísperas del golpe militar que acabará durante más de medio siglo con el sueño republicano.
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Ian Gibson
Ian Gibson
Author · 14 books

Ian Gibson (born 21 April 1939) is an Irish author and Hispanist known for his biographies of Antonio Machado, Salvador Dalí, Henry Spencer Ashbee, and particularly his work on Federico García Lorca, for which he won several awards, including the 1989 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography. His work, La represión nacionalista de Granada en 1936 y la muerte de Federico García Lorca (The nationalistic repression of Granada in 1936 and the death of Federico García Lorca) was banned in Spain under Franco. Born into a Methodist Dublin family, he was educated at Newtown School in Waterford and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin. He became a professor of Spanish literature at Belfast and London universities before moving to Spain. His first novel, Viento del Sur (Wind of the South, 2001), written in Spanish, examines class, religion, family life, and public schools in British society through the fictitious autobiography of a character named John Hill, an English linguist and academic. It won favourable reviews in Spain. Gibson has also worked in television on projects centering around his scholarly work in Spanish history, having served as a historical consultant and even acting in one historical drama. He was granted a Spanish passport in 1984.

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