by José Calvo Poyato · PLAZA & JANES · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401337369
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«El sueño de Hipatia» is the historical novel by José Calvo Poyato, published by Plaza & Janés in hardback (432 pages, in Spanish).
The novel alternates between two temporal settings: fourth-century Alexandria, where the mathematician and astronomer Hypatia defends classical knowledge against an increasingly intransigent Church, and Egypt in 1948, when the discovery of ancient manuscripts drags a British journalist into a web of interests and violence surrounding her figure.
Published in 2009, it is one of the author's numerous historical novels; he is a professor of History.
For readers of historical fiction and thrillers, with an interest in dual-timeline plots and real figures from antiquity such as Hypatia of Alexandria.
