El insomnio de una noche de invierno

Synopsis of El insomnio de una noche de invierno

«El insomnio de una noche de invierno» is the novel by Eduardo Alonso, published in 1984 by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (208 pages, in Spanish).

Set in the court of Philip IV, it reconstructs the palace conspiracy surrounding the imprisonment of Francisco de Quevedo in 1639. Among the Count-Duke of Olivares, a French ambassador, a lunatic arbitrista, la Calderona and a sore-ridden nun, it combines political intrigue, costumbrismo and the relationship between Quevedo and Lisi.

Winner of the Azorín Prize for Fiction and number 5 in Anagrama's Narrativas hispánicas collection.

For readers of literary fiction and historical novels set in seventeenth-century Spain.