La frontera invisible

Javier Reverte chose that vaporous and vulnerable border, the oldest in the world, to make his last trip. He chose Istanbul and its magnificent Bosphorus Strait as his gateway, and then entered the remote Iranian lands by train. The result is a beautiful and nostalgic journey that stops both in the pages of ancient history -in the wake of Alexander the Great- and contemporary history -the wars and revolutions that marked the convulsive 20th century-, and that reminds us of why Javier Reverte was the best writer of travel literature in the Spanish language.