by Julio Murillo Llerda · Ediciones Martínez Roca · tapa dura · ISBN 9788427031289
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«Las lágrimas de Karseb» is the historical novel by Julio Murillo Llerda, published by Ediciones Martínez Roca in hardback (392 pages, in Spanish).
In 1452, Mehmed II prepares the siege of Constantinople, last bastion of the Eastern Roman Empire. In Toledo, the physician Bernard Villiers receives an encrypted letter about one of the Tears of Karseb and travels with his friend Nikos and his apprentice Stelios. The jewel seems linked to the city's fate and to an ancient prophecy.
Finalist work of the fifth edition of the Alfonso X El Sabio Historical Novel Prize (2005), within the MR Historical Novel collection.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the fall of Constantinople and the Eastern Roman Empire.
