Cathedral of the Sea: A Novel
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0451225996
ISBN 13
9780451225993
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Publication Year
2009
Publisher
Pages
624
Description
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? - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
