Showing results for "Enigma" in Biographical Fiction

The story of a writer's singular journey - from one place to another, from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England, and from one state of mind to another - is perhaps Naipaul's most autobiographical work. Yet it is also woven through with remarkable invention to make it a rich and complex novel.

July 1540: the shocking news of Cromwell's fall reaches the court of Margaret of Navarre, sister of Francis I of France and arguably the most cultured woman north of the Alps. She sends her courtier and poet, Nicolas Bourbon, an avid reformer with many friends in English court circles, to find out what is happening. What Bourbon discovers from members of Cromwell's family, his proteges and his enemies sets him on what becomes a hazardous quest for the real man behind all the competing versions on offer.

La vida de María Eva Duarte de Perón está llena de misterios y enigmas que han contribuido enormemente a la construcción de uno de los mitos más significativos de la Argentina y del mundo. Esta obra, basada en un monólogo imaginario dirigido a su marido Juan Perón desde su morada definitiva, arroja una mirada a la experiencia subjetiva de la protagonista de una de las historias de amor y de política más intensas que ha tenido la Argentina.