by José Luis Corral Lafuente · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467211207
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«El Salón Dorado» is the historical novel by José Luis Corral Lafuente, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (635 pages, in Spanish).
A Slavic boy born near Kiev is captured and sold into slavery; his journey takes him from Constantinople to Rome and Zaragoza, then a centre of Andalusian learning, where he encounters the court of al-Muqtadir and El Cid. The novel champions knowledge as a path to understanding between cultures.
Work published in 2005; this edition commemorates its tenth anniversary and includes maps and photographs by the author himself.
For readers of historical fiction interested in medieval Spain, the Andalusian world and Mediterranean cultures.
