US Spanish Language Landmark
The May 30th finale of La Reina Del Sur, Telemundo’s Spanish-language series based on the novel of the same title by Spanish novelist Arturo Pérez-Reverte achieved the highest ratings for its time slot, regardless of language
The finale also gave a boost to the Spanish-language tie-in, a thriller about a Mexican woman who becomes the head of one of the biggest drug trafficking rings in the south of Spain. It rose to #196 on Amazon sales rankings; the English translation (Plume, 2005), rose as well, but only to #2,461.
In December, Alfaguara released the tie-in edition of the 2002 book.
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June 7th, 2011 at 5:14 pm
At our library, we also saw a big jump in demand for the Spanish edition of the Count of Monte Cristo. Apparently La Reina takes inspiration from that classic.