by Judith Merkle Riley · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408031031
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«El Oráculo de Cristal» is the historical fantasy novel by Judith Merkle Riley, published by Planeta in paperback (464 pages, in Spanish).
It is the winter of 1674. After being orphaned, thirteen-year-old Genevieve Pasquier tries to take her own life in the Seine. A sorceress rescues her and shows her the secrets of divination, in a setting of magic and witchcraft near the court of the Sun King.
Spanish translation by Francisco Martín; the work was originally published as The Oracle Glass in 1992. This Planeta edition is from 1999.
For readers of historical and fantasy fiction interested in the seventeenth-century French court and in magic.
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.
