N. Lamberti Libros

'One of the great triumphs of contemporary historical literature.' The TimesWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR'Laws are silent in times of war.' CiceroOne of the great epics of political and historical fiction, The Cicero Trilogy charts the career of the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero from his mid-twenties as an ambitious young lawyer to his dramatic death more than thirty years later, pursued by an assassination squad on a cliff-top path.The extraordinary life that unfolds between these two episodes is recounted by Cicero's private secretary, the law cases and the speeches that made his master's name; the elections and conspiracies he fought; the rivals who contended for power around him - Pompey, Crassus, Cato, Clodius, Catalina, and, most menacingly, Caesar; and, at the heart of it all, the complex personality of Cicero himself - brilliant, cunning, duplicitous, anxious, brave, and always intensely humane.More than ten years in the writing, and now published in a single volume for the first time, The Cicero Trilogy brings the world of the Roman republic vividly to life. Here is its grandeur, ambition and corruption; and here is its tumultuous collapse into dictatorship and anarchy - a story of the fragility of democratic institutions that holds a warning for our own time.

Cinco familias, tres décadas y una era extraordinaria se entrelazan en una narrativa inolvidable de pasión y conflicto durante la Guerra Fría. Rebecca Hoffmann, una maestra en Alemania Oriental, se enfrenta a la policía secreta y descubre que ha estado viviendo una mentira. Su hermano Walli sueña con escapar a Gran Bretaña a través del Muro de Berlín para unirse a la vibrante escena musical. En Estados Unidos, George Jakes, un joven abogado en la administración de Kennedy, y su amor, Verena, defensora de los derechos civiles, emprenden un viaje en autobús Greyhound desde Washington para protestar contra la segregación. Mientras tanto, Tania Dvorkin, activista rusa, evade la captura por producir un boletín informativo ilegal, mientras su hermano Dimka asciende en el Partido Comunista en el Kremlin. Desde el sur de América hasta Siberia, y desde Cuba hasta las calles de Londres en los años sesenta, esta obra presenta una épica lucha por la libertad individual en un mundo marcado por el conflicto de superpotencias.