by Ildefonso Falcones · ROSA DELS VENTS · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401354717
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«La reina descalça» is the historical novel by Ildefonso Falcones, published by Rosa dels Vents in hardback with dust jacket (752 pages, in Catalan).
In eighteenth-century Spain, Caridad, a former Cuban slave, and Milagros, a young gypsy woman from Triana, forge a friendship in Seville. A royal decree proscribing the gypsies separates them, but fate reunites them in Madrid, where they cross paths with smugglers, actors, nobles and villains, in a story of passion, loyalty and the struggle for freedom.
Work framed in the publisher's Narrativa collection. The original text, written in Catalan, was translated into Spanish by Jordi Puig Martínez. Historical novel set in eighteenth-century Spain.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction and for those seeking fiction with female protagonists in an era of prejudice and intolerance.
Barcelona lawyer and novelist, author of Cathedral of the Sea and The Heirs of the Earth, major Spanish-language historical-fiction hits.
