La Catedral del Mar (Edición Limitada Con Cantos Pintados) / Cathedral of the Sea (Limited Sprayed Edges Edition)

Siglo XIV. La ciudad de Barcelona se encuentra en su momento de mayor prosperidad; ha crecido hacia la Ribera, el humilde barrio de los pescadores, cuyos habitantes deciden construir, con el dinero de unos y el esfuerzo de otros, el mayor templo mariano jam嫳 conocido: Santa Mar燰 de la Mar.

Una construcci鏮 que es paralela a la azarosa historia de Arnau, un siervo de la tierra que huye de los abusos de su se隳r feudal y se refugia en Barcelona, donde se convierte en ciudadano y, con ello, en hombre libre.

El joven Arnau trabaja como palafrenero, estibador, soldado y cambista. Una vida extenuante, siempre al amparo de la catedral de la mar, que le iba a llevar de la miseria del fugitivo a la nobleza y la riqueza. Pero con esta posici鏮 privilegiada tambi幯 le llega la envidia de sus pares, que urden una s鏎dida conjura que pone su vida en manos de la Inquisici鏮...

La catedral del mar es una trama en la que se entrecruzan lealtad y venganza, traici鏮 y amor, guerra y peste, en un mundo marcado por la intolerancia religiosa, la ambici鏮 material y la segregaci鏮 social. Todo ello convierte esta obra no s鏊o en una novela absorbente, sino tambi幯 en la m嫳 fascinante y ambiciosa recreaci鏮 de las luces y sombras de la 廧oca feudal.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

The greatest publishing phenomenon in Spanish historical novel.

After Cathedral of the Sea and Heirs to the Land, on February 27th comes Ildefonso Falcones' long-awaited novel, In Love and War, the third instalment in the most-read historical saga of our time.

A cathedral built by the people and for the people of medieval Barcelona is the stage of a thrilling story of intrigue, violence, and passion.

Fourteenth century. The city of Barcelona is at a moment of great prosperity. It has extended all the way to the Ribera, humble borrow of fishermen, where the residents decided to build, with the money of some and the effort of others, the greatest Marian temple ever known: Santa Mar燰 de la Mar.

A construction parallel to the eventful life of Arnau, a serf running away from his feudal lord's abuse, taking refuge in Barcelona, where he becomes a citizen and, therefore, a free man.

Young Arnau works as a groom, a longshoreman, a soldier, and a money changer. A strenuous life, always sheltered by the cathedral of the sea, a place that would take him from the fugitive's misery to nobility and wealth. But with this privileged position also comes the envy of his peers, plotting a sordid conspiracy that puts his life in the hands of the Inquisition.

Cathedral of the Sea is a plot where loyalty and revenge, betrayal and love, war and plague intertwine in a world marked by religious intolerance, material ambition, and social segregation. All of which turns this work into not only an absorbing novel, but one of the most fascinating and ambitious recreations of the lights and shadows of feudal times.