If anyone has the magic formula to succeed in the historical fiction genre, that is Santiago Posteguillo (with permission from a Ken follet that although it is much more recognized, it is no less true that it fictionalizes rather than historicizes)
And Posteguillo is that perfect alchemist precisely for his virtuosity in mixing, for the balance in an aroma that evokes both exhaustively documented circumstances and delves, with the passion of a fresh and exuberant narrative, into the recesses of close and human intrahistories.
The 2018 Planet award comes to elevate an author who was already overflowing with genius as was clear in his previous book The seventh circle of hell, in which he invites us to one of the deepest journeys to the cradle of our western civilization to finally trace the most true story, the one that is related in so many literary forays by the greatest storytellers.
But going back to the novel awarded with the Planet 2018, Yo, Julia recovers once again the brilliance historically denied to the feminine and as true as it has been demonstrated in the light of the evidence. Between battles for an imperial power of millenary Rome, Julia's intelligence serves to lead a period of history that could end up being critical for the governance of the known world but that in its manifest instability served for her, Julia, to conform as a Goddess the designs of the Empire.
And it was that, the final destination that she had already been hatching, the same one that ended up raising him as the first most powerful empress, head of a dynasty consolidated thanks to her underground maneuvers and her magnificent strategic gifts on the edge of catastrophe.
The admired empress came to capitalize on the essence of the state, appeared minted in coins and knew how to be the first great woman to rule a world with that double effort that every woman needs to carry out any business.
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