by Emilio Calderón · Roca · tapa dura · ISBN 9788496791466
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«El secreto de la porcelana» is the historical novel by Emilio Calderón, published by Roca in hardback (224 pages, in Spanish).
Set in the eighteenth century, the novel follows two men competing to unravel the secret of porcelain: Damian Ossorio, a merchant in Manila in the service of the king of Spain, and the alchemist Johann Frederick Böttger, who works for Augustus II of Saxony. Böttger's discovery will change trade between Europe and China.
The work is part of Roca's Novela Histórica collection and is classified as historical fiction.
For historical fiction readers interested in the secret of porcelain, trade with Asia and eighteenth-century intrigues.
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