by Ildefonso Falcones · Sijthoff · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789021801889
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«De kathedraal van de zee» is the historical novel by Ildefonso Falcones, published by Sijthoff in paperback (655 pages, in Dutch).
Arnau Estanyol grows up in fourteenth-century Barcelona, free because his family escaped feudal serfdom. As Santa Maria del Mar rises, he goes from stone carrier to nobleman and ends up facing war, plague and the Inquisition; the novel also portrays the life of the bastaixos and the social tensions of the city.
Original work: «La catedral del mar» (2006); first instalment of the series of the same name. Dutch translation by Marleen Eijgenraam.
For readers of historical fiction and large social frescoes set in the Middle Ages, with a special interest in medieval Barcelona.
Barcelona lawyer and novelist, author of Cathedral of the Sea and The Heirs of the Earth, major Spanish-language historical-fiction hits.
