by Jesús Torbado · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788484500964
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«El peregrino» is the novel by Jesús Torbado published by Debolsillo in paperback (509 pages, in Spanish).
The work is structured as a tableau of stories around the Jacobean pilgrimages: pilgrims, settings and various episodes combine to portray the Camino de Santiago and its people. The author interweaves fiction and medieval travel in a choral narrative that evokes the atmosphere of the route.
It belongs to the Ave Fénix collection (no. 279/2) and to the Biblioteca Jesús Torbado (no. 2). It won the Ateneo de Sevilla Prize in 1993.
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction and for those seeking novels set in the world of pilgrimages.
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.
