Los hombres que no amaban a las mujeres by Stieg Larsson

Rosales added they followed a formula that worked with another of Planeta’s colossal bestsellers, Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s The Shadow of the Wind, opting for a “personal, artisanal” approach to publication, one that called for paying particular attention to the covers. “The potent characters and the themes of crimes against women, the injustice in the political system ring true in Spain right now during these corrupt times,” he said. In all, the Millennium trilogy has sold a total of 3.4 million individual volumes in its Spanish translation, while the Catalan version accounts for another 300,000.Īsked to speculate on Larsson’s popularity, Destino editorial director Emili Rosales credited the writing. The publisher Destino, an imprint of Grupo Planeta, also distributes to Latin America and the book has become a bestseller in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and several others. The first of the trilogy, Los hombres que no amaban a las mujeres, went on sale in Spain in June 2008.

It had just gone on sale the day before my flight and sold a stunning 200,000 copies in just 24 hours. What I didn’t know then was that this book - La reina en el palacio de las corrientes de aire - was the third and final book in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy. When you’ve worked in publishing, and by serendipity spot more than one person reading the same book in a public setting, and in one condensed space, it can signify pure zeitgeist or signal the sighting of a damn good book. MADRID: This past June, I boarded a plane at Madrid’s Barajas Airport bound for Bogotá, Colombia when I noticed several women on the plane with the same book.

Los hombres que no amaban a las mujeres by Stieg Larsson