“History of Spain” (“Una historia de España”) from the writer and journalist Arturo Perez-Reverte, author of the bestsellers “The Flemish Board”, “Drum Skin” and many others, was published in 2019 and immediately sold out Spain in a huge print run. In this book, the author offers his caustic, funny, personal and completely unorthodox view of his native country. Pérez-Reverte narrates the major events of Spain's past - from its origins to the 1980s - assessing them with an emphatically subjective view, formed on the basis of a deep knowledge of history, understanding of its processes, experience and common sense. “I write about history the same way I write novels and articles,” says the author. “I wasn’t looking for any special angle, it’s all the result of my thoughts.” Its narrative is constructed so captivatingly and masterfully, so rich in vivid details, so clearly based on professionally structured documentary materials, that it deserves to take pride of place both among the best examples of popular literature and among the works of academic historians.