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Dutton
May 2008
On Sale: May 1, 2008
624 pages
ISBN: 0525950486
EAN: 9780525950486
Hardcover
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Historical
At last: The international bestseller— which has already
sold nearly 2 million copies worldwide—comes to America!
Cathedral of the Sea,
Ildefonso Falcones's mesmerizing historical novel about medieval
Barcelona, was Spain's #1 bestseller for a full year. Rights
have sold
in thirty-two countries to date, and comparisons to Ken
Follett's The Pillars of the Earth are being made.
Who better to bring you this international sensation than
Follett's own publisher?
Cathedral of the Sea follows the fortunes of the Estanyol
family, from
their peasant roots to a son, Arnau, who flees the land only
to realize
spectacular wealth and devastating problems. During Arnau's
lifetime
Barcelona becomes a city of light and darkness, dominated by the
construction of the city's great pride—the cathedral of
Santa Maria del
Mar—and by its shame, the deadly Inquisition. A s a young
man, Arnau
joins the powerful guild of stone-workers and helps to build
the church
with his own hands, while his best friend and adopted
brother Joan
studies to become a priest. When Arnau, who secretly loves a
forbidden
Jewish woman named Mar, is betrayed and hauled before the
Inquisitor,
he finds himself faceto- face with his own brother. Will he
lose his
life just as his beloved Cathedral of the Sea is
finally completed?
An unforgettable fresco of a
golden age in fourteenth-century Barcelona, Cathedral of
the Sea is a story of friendship and revenge, of love
and war.
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