Name: Husein, el Mahut (in Spanish)
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Author: Patrick O'brian
ISBN: 9788435008976

Type

Physical Book

Author

Patrick O'Brian

Publisher

Edhasa

Year

2009

Language

Spanish

Pages

320

Format

Hardcover

ISBN

8435008975

ISBN13

9788435008976

Edited in

España

Edition No.

1ª

Synopsis "Husein, el Mahut (in Spanish)"

Mediante una historia que a menudo la crítica ha comparado con el "Kim" de Rudyard Kipling, O'Brian sigue en esta ocasión la trayectoria de un joven mahut, un guía de elefantes, para desplegar a un tiempo un apasionante recorrido por la India y un inolvidable viaje interior a lo más delicado del corazón humano. Los encuentros con magos, la búsqueda de la felicidad en las pequeñas cosas, un amor aparentemente imposible, el nomadismo, los enfrentamientos con camaradas, jalonan una emocionante lectura a través de la cual va alzándose un personaje absolutamente memorable.Como curiosidad, la calidad de esta novela hizo que se convirtiera en la primera obra de ficción contemporánea que publicó Oxford University Press en 1938

Patrick O'Brian

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Richard Patrick Russ, known as Patrick O'Brian, was a British writer and translator born in Buckinghamshire (not in Ireland, as he claimed) on December 12, 1914, and who died on January 2, 2000 in Dublin, Ireland

Son of a doctor of German origin and an Englishwoman of Irish descent, he was the eighth of a family of nine children. He published his first novel in 1930, when he was a teenager, but did not return to write this genre —although he did publish several stories, biographies, and children's books— until about forty years later, an American publisher suggested he write a work in the line of the late Cecil Scott Forrester, maintaining the genre of the "naval epic" that had made him famous

Following the editor's advice, O'Brian wrote the famous characters Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, who thrived in the environment of the British Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. Master and Commander, the first title in the series they starred in, led to the successful film adaptation Master and Commander, which featured Russell Crowe

O'Brian was an excellent translator of French, as evidenced by his translations of Papillon by Henri Charrière and several works by Simone de Beauvoir. A writer jealous of his private life, little was known about his life until the publication of his biography by his stepson, Nikolai Tolstoy.

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