by Toti Martínez de Lezea · EMBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496231740
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«La herbolera» is the historical novel by Toti Martínez de Lezea, published by Embolsillo in paperback (480 pages, in Spanish).
Catalina de Goiena, raised on ancient pagan beliefs and from a family of healers, moves to Durango to learn the trade of midwife. There she will discover another way of life and fall in love with someone unworthy of her, while becoming caught up in the trial against the «durangas», women accused of witchcraft, mostly midwives and herbalists.
Spanish-language edition published in 2006 in the Biblioteca Toti Martínez de Lezea collection.
For readers of historical fiction and stories about superstition, healers and persecution in the Basque Country at the end of the Middle Ages.
Esperanza Martínez de Lezea García is a Spanish writer who writes both in Spanish and Basque. She is a certified translator in French, English and German. She is also a television presenter and actor; she is one of the founders of the Kukubiltxo theatre company.
