by Jean-Christophe Rufin · Ediciones B · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788440696946
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«El abisinio» is the historical novel by Jean-Christophe Rufin, published by Ediciones B in paperback (573 pages, in Spanish).
In the 17th century, Jean-Baptiste Poncet, a young French doctor in Cairo, is chosen to cure the Negus of Abyssinia. His journey through deserts and mountains becomes entangled in political and religious intrigues; back in Versailles, his ideas clash with the court. An adventure with love, class differences, and the Western gaze on the East.
The author's first novel, winner of the Prix Goncourt for a first novel, and the first instalment of the series «The Abyssinian». It was originally published as «L'Abyssin» (1997).
Readers of historical and adventure fiction, with political plots and Eastern settings.
Jean-Christophe Rufin is a French doctor, diplomat, historian and novelist. He is the president of Action Against Hunger, one of the earliest members of Médecins Sans Frontières, and a member of the Académie française.
