by Kathryn Harrison · Folio · tapa dura · ISBN 9788441315365
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«Veneno» is the historical novel by Kathryn Harrison, published by Folio in hardback (368 pages, in Spanish).
Set in seventeenth-century Spain, the novel interweaves the lives of María Luisa de Borbón, married to Carlos II, and Francisca de Luarca, a rebellious commoner who risks everything for love of a cleric. Harrison portrays famines, plagues and the Inquisition; reading or healing was dangerous, and women suffered religious fanaticism and power.
The original title is «Poison» (1995); the Spanish edition, translated by Ángela Pérez, was published in 2000 in the Nueva Novela Histórica collection.
For readers of historical fiction interested in seventeenth-century Spain and female protagonists.
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.
