A masterful eipc of love, war, treason, plague, famine, witchcraft, anti-Semitism and the Inquisition. 14th-century Spain, the medieval city of Barcelona is enjoying a golden age of prosperity. Its humblest inhabitants are building, stone by stone, a magnificent church to overlook their harbour. Th
Cathedral of the Sea
โ Scribed by Ildefonso Falcones
- Publisher
- Penguin Group USA, Inc.;New American Library
- Year
- 2011;2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 723 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
The "riveting"(The Washington Post) #1 international bestseller'now in paperback in the U.S. In the tradition of Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth, here is a thrilling historical novel of friendship and revenge, plague and hope, love and war, set in the golden age of 14th-century Barcelona. Arnau Estanyol arrives in Barcelona and joins the powerful guild of stone-workers building the magnificent cathedral of Santa Maria del Mar, while his adoptive brother Joan studies to become a priest. As Arnau prospers, he secretly falls in love with a forbidden woman. When he is betrayed and hauled before the Inquisitor, he finds himself face-to-face with his own brother. Will he lose his life just as his beloved cathedral is finally completed, or will his brother spare him'
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