A lyrical first novel based on historical fact, "The Princess, The King and The Anarchist" by Swiss author Robert Pagani has just been released in English translation by Helen Marx Books.
Please join us for the book launch on Monday, December 13, at 7:00 p.m. at La Maison Francaise of NYU. Robert Pagani will discuss the book and his work with author Carolyn Weber.
A suspenseful and poignant portrayal of a young princess contemplating her impending wedding night, the story itself is based on the actual events of a 1906 attempt on the life of Spain's Alfonso XIII as his wedding procession winds through Madrid. Here is how the novel begins:
"The day she became queen, there were lots of flowers, lots of noises, lots of blood, and lots of dead bodies, but she wasn't particularly surprised. During the ten seconds that followed the explosion, she wasn't even very agitated, not because she was in a shock but because her mind was somewhere else. Three months earlier, she had read a book, or more precisely, only the first page of a book, since it had been taken away immediately, coming as it did from a shelf in the library forbidden to her; this book told the story of a music professor and his wife..."
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