by Judith Merkle Riley · Planeta. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788408038092
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«El don de los deseos» is the historical novel by Judith Merkle Riley, published by Planeta in hardback (419 pages, in Spanish).
In 1556 France, Catherine de' Medici wants to rid herself of King Henry II's mistress and seeks the immortal head of the magician Menander, the Lord of All Desires. Nostradamus, the queen's astrologer, discovers that whoever possesses that object sees their wishes fulfilled in exchange for selling their soul to the devil. The head falls into the hands of Sibille Artaud de la Roque, a young aspiring poet, and two women of different stations clash over a power that could change their lives.
Original title: «The Master of All Desires». Translation by Josefina Guerrero.
For readers of historical fiction with mystery plots and supernatural elements, set in the sixteenth-century French court.
Judith Merkle Riley was an American political scientist and novelist. Writing as Judith A. Merkle, she published Management and Ideology: The Legacy of the International Scientific Management Movement (1980), a study of scientific management reviewed in major historical journals. Beginning in 1988, under her married name, she wrote six historical novels set in late medieval and early modern Europe.
