Dealer tulips

"Merchant tulips" leads us to the Netherlands of the seventeenth century. Country something crazy - the passion for tulips. Rare varieties are sold at unheard of prices: one bulb of Semper Augustus - the legendary Tulip incomparable beauty - is equal in value almost to the Palace. The market is huge fortunes are created and melt within hours. Closely examining the human passions, Olivier Bleys on historical material subtly draws the mechanism underlying the modern financial pyramids.
Olivier Bleys, the famous French writer, was born in 1970. His books have won prestigious awards, including the prize of the French Academy, and translated into fifteen languages, including Portuguese, Korean and Chinese. Fans of historical fiction compare novels of Blas with the best works by Arturo Perez-Reverte ("Flemish Board") and Tracy Chevalier (Girl with a pearl earring").