Prey For The Shadow eBook

Javier Cercas was born in Ibahernando, Cáceres, in 1962. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages ​​and have received numerous awards, including: the National Literature Prize, the City of Barcelona Prize, the Salambó Prize, the Chilean Critics' Prize, the Llibreter Prize, the Qué Leer Prize, the Grinzane Cavour Prize, The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Archbishop Juan de San Clemente Prize, the Cálamo Prize, the Mondello Prize, the Terenci Moix International Prize, and the European Athens Prize for Literature. In 2011, he was awarded the Turin Book Fair International Prize for his body of work.
In June 2024, he was elected to the Royal Spanish Academy, and has held Chair R since November of that year. He is the author of novels such as... Soldiers of Salamis, The Laws of the Border (Casino da Póvoa Literary Prize / Correntes d’Escritas 2016) The Monarch of Shadows and Highlands (Planeta Award 2019), which begins the series also composed of Independence and THE Bluebeard's Castle. The Madman of God at the End of the World, published in 2025 by Porto Editora, was awarded the European Book Prize, an award that his novel had received in 2016. The Impostor.