![]() The book is set in fourteenth-century Barcelona, where the fugitive serf Bernat Estanyol and his infant son Arnau – on the run from their overbearing lord – come to seek shelter with his sister and her husband, the successful potter Grau Puig. ![]() ![]() Suffice it to say I won’t be recommending it to anyone. I’m going to try to keep this post brief because, while I’m more than happy to write long effusive reviews of books I like, I see no virtue in dwelling on negativity. As it was, I forced myself through to the end. Had I not felt honour-bound to finish it, I would have put it aside after the first hundred pages. In fact, I am willing to go further in this instance and to say that this is a very disappointing book. ![]() Like The Visit of the Royal Physician, however, it left me cold. Like Per Olov Enquist’s Visit of the Royal Physician, Ildefonso Falcones’s historical novel Cathedral of the Sea has won a veritable bouquet of prizes both in its native Spain, where it enjoyed immense success, and in other European countries. ![]()
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