Victus

Victus is a historical novel that tells the story of the War of the Spanish Succession, a conflict that can be considered the first of the world wars and that ends on September 11, 1714 with the apocalyptic assault on Barcelona. It is also the tragedy of Martí Zuviría, a young man from Barcelona, ??a privileged student of the Marquis de Vauban, who becomes a genius of military engineering. Victus is a prodigy of information and historical rigor at the service of an agile, powerful and direct story, with a rabidly contemporary diction, which takes us from France to Barcelona via Madrid, Toledo, Tortosa or the battles of Brihuega and Almansa. And it is also a work about the irreducible Barcelona of 1714, which suffered an unequal siege of thirteen months and the bombing of more than thirty thousand projectiles. Victus questions the official versions of both sides and gives the floor to the real protagonists of the story, from the immense figure of Villarroel, the general who defended the Catalan capital with tears in his eyes, to civilians and soldiers anonymous of all the nations that fought on either side of the walls. But, above all, Victus is a first-rate literary feast that devours itself in the way great works have always been devoured, as evidenced by the fact that its rights have been sold to Russian, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Korean, Croatian and French.