by Kathryn Harrison · tapa dura · ISBN 9788440662378
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«Veneno» is the historical novel by Kathryn Harrison, published by Ediciones B in hardback (357 pages, in Spanish).
In seventeenth-century Spain, María Luisa de Borbón discovers a court dominated by religious fanaticism and persecution. Her path crosses that of Francisca de Luarca, a commoner who falls in love with a cleric who introduces her to knowledge and desire. Two women whose lives reflect the victims of a dark era.
Translation by Ángela Pérez of the original English, «Poison» (1995). This edition was published in 1997.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction interested in the reign of Charles II and in the female lives of the Spanish Baroque.
Kathryn Harrison is an American author. She has published seven novels, two memoirs, two collections of personal essays, a travelogue, two biographies, and a book of true crime. She reviews regularly for The New York Times Book Review. Her personal essays have been included in many anthologies and have appeared in Bookforum, Harper's Magazine, More Magazine, The New Yorker, O, The Oprah Magazine, and Vogue, Salon, and Nerve.
