7 + 2.40 de portes (livro de 700 gramas, 1.80 de portes + .60 eur pelo envelope almofadado)

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Simon Sebag Montefiore – Red Sky at Noon - Century, London, 2017, 1ª edição absoluta, 392 páginas.

Em língua Inglesa

Hardcover

Sobrecapa com um ínfimo rasgão no topo, foto 1, junto ao ângulo com a badana.

Fora isso, sobrecapa e livro/miolo em muito bom estado, sem assinatura de posse, notas ou sublinhados.

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Apesar de ser mais conhecido pelos seus livros de História (Jerusalém, Corte de Stalin, etc), Montefiore é também romancista; este é um desses exemplos:

'The black earth was already baking and the sun was just rising when they mounted their horses and rode across the grasslands towards the horizon on fire …’

Imprisoned in the Gulags for a crime he did not commit, Benya Golden joins a penal battalion made up of Cossacks and convicts to fight the Nazis.

He enrols in the Russian cavalry, and on a hot summer day in July 1942, he and his band of brothers are sent on a desperate mission behind enemy lines.

Switching between Benya's war in the grasslands of Southern Russia, and Stalin's plans in the Kremlin, between Benya's intense affair with an Italian nurse and a romance between Stalin's daughter and a journalist also on the Eastern Front, this is a sweeping story of passion, bravery and human survival where personal betrayal is a constant companion, and death just a heartbeat away.