Descripción
A cathedral built by the people and for the people in medieval Barcelona is the setting for a thrilling story of intrigue, violence, and passion.
14th century. The city of Barcelona is at its most prosperous; it has grown towards La Ribera, the humble fishermen's quarter, whose inhabitants decide to build, with the money of some and the effort of others, the largest Marian temple ever known: Santa María del Mar.
A construction that runs parallel to the eventful story of Arnau, a serf who flees the abuses of his feudal lord and takes refuge in Barcelona, where he becomes a citizen and, with it, a free man.
Young Arnau works as a stable boy, stevedore, soldier, and money changer. An exhausting life, always under the protection of the Cathedral of the Sea, which would take him from the misery of a fugitive to nobility and wealth. But with this privileged position also comes the envy of his peers, who concoct a sordid plot that puts his life in the hands of the Inquisition.
Cathedral of the Sea is a plot in which loyalty and revenge, betrayal and love, war and plague intertwine, in a world marked by religious intolerance, material ambition, and social segregation. All of this makes this work not only an absorbing novel but also the most fascinating and ambitious recreation of the lights and shadows of the feudal era.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Now a Netflix Series.An unforgettable fresco of a golden age in fourteenth-century Barcelona, Cathedral of the Sea is a thrilling historical novel of friendship and revenge, plague and hope, love and war.
Arnau Estanyol arrives in Barcelona to find a city dominated by the construction of the city's great pride--the cathedral of Santa Maria del Mar--and by its shame, the deadly Inquisition. As a young man, Arnau joins the powerful guild of stoneworkers and helps to build the church with his own hands, while his best friend and adopted brother Joanet studies to become a priest. With time, Arnau prospers and falls secretly in love with a forbidden woman. But when he is betrayed and hauled before the Inquisitor, he finds himself face-to-face with Joanet. Will he lose his life just as his beloved Cathedral of the Sea is finally completed, or will his brother save him?Author: Ildefonso Falcones
Publisher: Debolsillo
Published: 04/23/2019
Pages: 672
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 7.20h x 4.80w x 1.60d
ISBN13: 9788499088044
ISBN10: 849908804X
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Religious | General
- Fiction | Literary
About the Author
Ildefonso Falcones, married and father of four children, is a lawyer and writer. His first novel, La catedral del mar (Grijalbo, 2006), set in medieval Barcelona, became an unprecedented global publishing phenomenon, recognized by both readers and critics and published in over forty countries. It also received several awards, including the Euskadi de Plata 2006 for the best novel in Spanish, the Qué Leer award for the best Spanish book of 2006, the José Manuel Lara Foundation award for the best-selling novel in 2006, the prestigious Italian Giovanni Boccaccio 2007 award for best foreign author, the international Città dello Stretto 2008 award, and the Fulbert de Chartres 2009 award.
His subsequent works were La mano de Fátima (Grijalbo, 2009), which narrates the expulsion of the Moriscos from the Peninsula and was awarded the Rome 2010 prize, and La reina descalza (Grijalbo, 2013), which tells the story of two women fighting for the freedom and dignity of the most oppressed in 18th-century Spain, earning the Pencho Cros 2013 award. He was also awarded the Giardini 2014 prize.
With over nine million copies of his works sold worldwide, Ildefonso Falcones has established himself as one of the most widely read Spanish writers.
In his latest novel, Los herederos de la tierra (Grijalbo, 2016), the author returns to the atmosphere of his most emblematic work, La catedral del mar, to offer us the novel most anticipated by many of his readers.