Other Fiction Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente: Mare Nostrum (Our Sea). V1. 10-Jul-2011-

[weatherwax]

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (29 January 1867 – 28 January 1928) was a Spanish realist novelist writing in Spanish, a screenwriter and occasional film director.
Born in Valencia, today he is best known in the English-speaking world for his World War I novel Los cuatro jinetes del apocalipsis. Filmed in 1921 as The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, it was filmed again in 1962, reset in World War II. However, in his time he was a best-selling author inside and outside of Spain, and also known for his controversial political activities. While Sangre y arena (Blood and Sand) and Los cuatro jinetes del apocalipsis are his most popular novels, particularly outside of Spain, his Valencian novels such as La barraca and Cañas y barro are the ones most valued by scholars.

Freya Talberg is a German secret agent during WWI. Though outwardly cold and seemingly untouchable, Freya loses her heart to Spanish sea captain Ulysses Ferragut, and as a result of her infatuation she is captured and sentenced to execution by firing squad.

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[Lemming-UK]

Thanks very much for posting these novels. I am taking up a job in Spain next year and am trying to read as much as possible about and by the Spanish