Descripciones mejoradas de Syndetics:

El eje de esta entretenida novela es la búsqueda de un tesoro hundido en el Mediterráneo, cuando naufragó allí el barco que lo transportaba, en el siglo dieciocho. La protagonista, Tánger Soto -una mujer hermosa, valiente y decidida- va tras el tesoro acompañada de un marinero, Coy, que lleva mucho tiempo alejado del mar. Sin embargo, el camino no les resultará fácil, porque también se han lanzado a la aventura dos ambiciosos y crueles buscadores de tesoros. Con el fondo de esta trama apasionante, el autor perfila uno de sus personajes femeninos más logrados en la figura de Tánger Soto, una mujer que ha vivido sola y que ha tenido que hacerse fuerte enfrentando los riesgos y adversidades de un mundo regido por los hombres. De alguna forma, la búsqueda de este tesoro se transforma en una metáfora del intento por escrutar los secretos del alma femenina.

Reseñas proporcionadas por Syndetics

Publishers Weekly Review

With award-winning intellectual thrillers like El club Dumas (The Club Dumas, Suma de Letras, 2000) and La tabla de Flandes (The Flanders Panel, Debolsillo, 2000), former war correspondent Perez-Reverte has emerged as one of Spain's most popular and most translated authors. This new work follows the fortunes of a sailor who meets the enigmatic T nger Soto and is drawn into her obsessive search for the mysterious cargo from the Jesuit ship Dei Gloria, which was lost off the Spanish coast in 1767. While his characters use an antique nautical chart to unlock the secrets held by the sea and by history, Perez-Reverte draws on the metaphorical power of the ocean to chart the essential solitude and longing of the human psyche. This is his most accomplished novel to date. Combining a trademark attention to the historical and technical detail of his subject matter with a perfectly paced narrative, suspenseful twists, memorable characters, and humor, Perez-Reverte crafts an adventure novel in the tradition of the authors admired by his protagonist: Herman Melville, Robert Conrad, and Robert Louis Stevenson. As popular fiction, this book is highly recommended for bookstores and libraries with foreign-language collections. [The English-language translation of this book, The Nautical Chart, is available from Harcourt. Ed.] Wilson Neate, New York City (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Booklist Review

Seamen search for a boat lost in the Mediterranean, and a mariner meets a woman who has answers to age-old questions.

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Novelist and former journalist Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez was born in Cartagena, Spain on November 25, 1951. He started his journalistic career writing for the Spanish newspaper Pueblo and later for Television Espanola - the Spanish state owned television, in the role of war correspondant. He worked as a war correspondent from 1973 to1994 before becoming a full-time writer. His first novel, El húsar, which was set in the Napoleonic Wars, was published in 1986, and he is well-known internationally for his popular Captain Alatriste fiction series, which takes place in 17th-century Europe. Pérez-Reverte has been elected to the Spanish Royal Academy.

(Bowker Author Biography)