"El maestro del Prado" ("The Master of El Prado"), by Javier Sierra, the most sold national novel in Spain in 2013
04/02/2014El maestro del Prado (The Master of El Prado), sixth and last novel by Javier Sierra, was the most sold among the national fiction books in Spain in 2013, as revealed by Nielsen Bookscan. Published in February 2013 by Planeta, it has sold more than 150.000 copies in Spain and the same amount in Latin America, reaching its seventh edition and remaining on the best seller lists for more than 25 weeks in the sales lists. The novel, a mixture of art, history, suspense and conspiracies, crosses the limits between reality and fiction by placing Javier Sierra in the center of a mysterious tour around the Prado in which he is accompanied by an enigmatic master, who will show the author the secrets hidden in paintings by artists such as Raphael, Tiziano, El Bosco, Juan de Juanes, Botticelli, Brueghel or El Greco. By the end of 2014, El maestro del Prado (which has revived the attraction of the public for the museum, and aspires to become a book of reference for all those interested in it) will be published in English, Portuguese, Russian and Hungarian.
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Javier Sierra and María Dueñas were two of the best selling authors in 2013 in Spain
19/02/2014We're happy to see two of our titles in the best seller lists of 2013 published by Nielsen Bookscan. Javier Sierra, with his latest novel El maestro del Prado (The Master of El Prado), appears, in the sixth position, as the first Spanish author in the list, with almost 150.000 copies sold of this last book. María Dueñas is in the tenth position with Misión Olvido (Mission Oblivion), that sold almost 120.000 copies. Rights to El maestro del Prado (an intriguing mixture of fiction, essay and biography in which a mysterious master explains the works of the museum to the author) have been sold to the United States, Brazil, Russia, Poland and Romania, in translations that are in the works and will see the light of day at the end of this year. Misión Olvido blends love, intrigue and appealing characters through the story of Blanca Perea, a teacher that will come to surprising conclusions while working on a project that was thought to be boring and unsubstantial. The book has repeated the astounding success of El tiempo entre costuras (The Seamstress) and has been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Hungarian, Serbian, Swedish, Norwegian and Catalan.
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The Master Plan
The highly anticipated return of the master of mystery to bookstores. In 1990, Javier Sierra had an unexpected encounter at the Prado Museum with an enigmatic figure. This person revealed the existence of a secret society that, for centuries, had been safeguarding select works of art that serve as gateways between worlds. That revelation led to the creation of El maestro del Prado (Planeta, 2013). Since then, the author has been attempting to meet that mysterious figure once more and, along the way, has uncovered the existence of a "master plan" that gives art a profound meaning. For centuries, enigmatic masters have shaped humanity in unimaginable ways. Some myths refer to them as divine instructors, others as daimons, angels, or spirits. Their knowledge has been instrumental in developing agriculture, astronomy, mathematics, and artistic expression. But who are they, really? A captivating novel that will take you on a journey through art to uncover a hidden chapter of civilization.
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