by Jean-Christophe Rufin · ZETA BOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496546271
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«El abisinio» is the historical novel by Jean-Christophe Rufin, published by Zeta Bolsillo in paperback (560 pages, in Spanish).
The young French doctor Jean-Baptiste Poncet, based in Cairo, is chosen to cure the Negus of Abyssinia. He sets off for Abyssinia with the artist Juremi and the Jesuit Father Brèvedent, who hides his ambitions. After an expedition through deserts and mountains, he discovers that a very different reception from the one he imagined awaits him at the court of Versailles.
This work was originally published in French as «L'Abyssin» in 1997 and is the first instalment of the series The Abyssinian; it received the Prix Goncourt for a first novel and the Prix Méditerranée.
For readers of historical and adventure novels, with journeys through Egypt and Abyssinia and intrigues at the court of Versailles.
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.
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