Just yesterday, late in the day, Javier Sierra he became the winner of the 2017 Planet Award with his work "The artificial mountain", written and presented under the pseudonym Victoria Goodman. Finally, this work will be published in Editorial Planeta obviously, under the title "The invisible fire".
But what other books has the good Javier Sierra written? Have you read anything of his before? Today in Actualidad Literatura, we present to you his 3 best books. We tell you a little about each of them and tell you what assessment they deserve for literary criticism.
"The lost angel" (Javier Sierra, 2011)
While working on the restoration of the Pórtico de la Gloria in Santiago de Compostela, Julia Álvarez receives devastating news: her husband has been kidnapped in a mountainous region in northeastern Turkey. Inadvertently, Julia will be involved in an ambitious race to control two ancient stones that, apparently, allow contact with supernatural entities and in which they are interested from a mysterious eastern sect to the president of the United States.
A work that leaves all the conventions of the genre behind, reinventing it and pushing the reader on an adventure that they will not forget.
This book of 544 pages It will immerse you in a fictional world that seems very real and in the knowledge of important historical data as is customary in each and every one of Javier Sierra's books. Another important fact to add about it is that with this book he achieved the Latin Book Awards from the United States.
"The secret dinner" (Javier Sierra, 2005)
This book sounded a lot and it is that it coincided in time with the famous "Da Vinci Code" de Dan Brown. Hermetic and suggestive, "The secret dinner" is the novel that offers a revolutionary perspective on both Leonardo da Vinci and his masterpiece, The Last Supper. After reading this book, you will never see the Renaissance in the same way again.
Milan, 1497. Leonardo is putting the finishing touches on his great mural. But Pope Alexander VI realizes that his strokes conceal a blasphemous message that he is determined to decipher in order to condemn its author.
There is no Holy Grail or Eucharist in this Last Supper; there is not even a trace of lamb on the plates, and the apostles hide portraits of important XNUMXth-century heretics. And why has Leonardo portrayed himself among them?
A whole world of unknowns that it will be good to discover with the help of the new 2017 Planet Prize. Don't you think?
"The Blue Lady" (Javier Sierra, 1988 and 2008)
Although originally, "The Blue Lady" was published in the year 1988, was revised and published again in 2008. Again, a book where suspense, mystery and enigmas are the order of the day.
There are secrets that Providence cannot keep hidden any longer. This is the only way to explain why a Vatican scientific project aimed at capturing images and sounds from the remote past is intercepted by the US Department of Defense and forces Jennifer Narody, one of the best agents, to confront a gift from the time of the greats. mystics.
Meanwhile, in Spain, Destiny leads a young journalist to investigate the life of a nun from the Golden Age who, without ever leaving her cloister in Soria, miraculously preached in New Mexico, 10.000 kilometers away.
His carefully silenced technique hides a shocking revelation. With this novel, Javier Sierra reveals to us the exciting genre of "investigative novels."
And you, what other book or rather, what 3 other books do you consider to be the best by the author? Javier Sierra has become one of the Spanish authors of bestseller most internationally recognized, so we think that the Planeta Prize (a very important Spanish prize) will only be one of those that remain to be achieved.
Whatever it has to be in the future, while the Editorial Planeta he is finalizing the details of the new publication and winning work of Sierra, here you have 3 very good books by the author. Where will you start your literary adventure?