Italian. Perev-Reverte A.

“I dreamed of writing this unthinkable and completely genuine story since her father told me in childhood,” says Arturo Perevo-Reverte about the novel “Italian”, which in the author’s homeland of several thousand copies of the author.

The real history of Italian battle swimmers who sank fourteen British ships-the story of the triumph of individual people over a powerful military machine, contrary to all probabilities, was told differently for many years: Italians were traditionally depicted stupid panties, and re-released wanted to restore justice. Italy was an ally of Germany in the Second World War, but this does not bother him: “In my novels, the border between the hero and the villain is always arbitrary. My characters could be on any side. Heroes are always ambiguous. And who does not understand this, let him roll to the devil. ”

Arturo Perezherte is a former military journalist, a famous author of brilliant historical, military, adventure novels translated into forty languages, creator of the cycle about captain Diego Alatrist, the owner of the prestigious literary awards. His new novel is the story of personal valor: the courage of the Italian divers, who conducted daring operations on Gibraltar, and the courage of one Spanish woman, the mistress of the bookstore, who recognized the heroes in these people in the classical, book sense of the word, wanted to fight with them and turned out to be modern Nasikai for Ulysses, who came out of the darkness of the waters.

“Italian” - a dizzying military thriller, a hymn in the Mediterranean, an incredible love story and fearlessness in the face of hopeless circumstances, a novel about heroism on any direction of the front line. For the first time in Russian!