by Ildefonso Falcones · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788490327142
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«La reina descalça» is the historical novel by Ildefonso Falcones, published by Debolsillo in paperback (752 pages, in Spanish).
In eighteenth-century Spain, Caridad, a Black woman escaping her past as a slave in Cuba, meets Milagros, a gypsy from Triana. When a royal decree proscribes the gypsies, their friendship drags them from Seville to a Madrid of smugglers, comedians, nobles and villains, in a story of passion and the struggle for freedom.
Edition without flaps, published in 2014 in the Best Seller collection. La reina descalça won the Pencho Cros Prize 2013.
A read for those who enjoy historical fiction and dramas of friendship set in eighteenth-century Spain.
Barcelona lawyer and novelist, author of Cathedral of the Sea and The Heirs of the Earth, major Spanish-language historical-fiction hits.
