by Jesús Torbado · Editorial Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408028741
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«El peregrino» is the historical novel by Jesús Torbado, published by Editorial Planeta in paperback (514 pages, in Spanish).
Set at the beginnings of the Camino de Santiago, the novel follows Martin de Châtillon on his pilgrimage from France to the apostle's tomb. Along the way, saints and sinners, visionaries and swindlers, prostitutes and heroes pass by, in a world where faith, death, and deceit coexist with medieval harshness.
The work won the Ateneo de Sevilla Prize in 1993 and belongs to Planeta's Colección Autores Españoles e Iberoamericanos.
For readers of historical fiction interested in medieval Spanish kingdoms and the pilgrimages to Santiago.
Jesús Torbado was a Spanish writer, journalist and traveler. He was born in León and studied journalism in Madrid. He won the 1965 Premio Alfaguara for his novel Las corrupciones. In 1976, he won the Premio Planeta for En el día de hoy, an alternate history about the Spanish Civil War. In 1993, he won the Premio Ateneo de Sevilla for El peregrino.
