The blood of Alfonso Goizueta’s father

The blood of the father
by Alfonso Goizueta

He conquered the most powerful empire in the world,
but the most violent war was waged against himself.

After the murder of his father, Alexander ascends to the throne of Macedonia. He has just inherited not only the title, but also the duty to emerge victorious in the mission that his people demand of him: to take the lands that were once Greek from the Persians and restore their freedom.
However, it can’t stop there; The blood of kings, of heroes, of gods that runs through his veins forces him to carry out a much more ambitious undertaking. He wants to conquer Babylon, Persepolis and all the cities on his way east, until he defeats the last Achaemenid king, the fearsome Darius, and puts an end to the Persian Empire forever.
He knows it is his destiny. Only he can achieve it, only he can conquer the world; only he is Alexander the Great.

The Father’s Blood, Finalist for the 2023 Planeta Prize, is an epic and colossal novel about the man who wanted to save people from tyranny for the sake of freedom.

Alfonso Goizueta Alfaro (Madrid, 1999) has a degree in History and International Relations from King’s College London. In 2017 he published his first book, Limiting Power 1871-1939, a history of Western diplomacy from German unification to the invasion of Poland, which was followed, in 2018, The Last Rulers of Castile, an essay on the historical origins of Spanish unity in the 15th and 16th centuries. He regularly contributes to various university publications with articles on the Spanish and international political situation and has published several columns on these topics in the newspaper ABC. In 2020 he published the book titled Corazón deidades with Caligrama.