The Rebels of Cordoba

1568. If Spain is experiencing its Golden Age, the same can hardly be said for its Moors – Muslims are dispossessed, beaten, and humiliated by the ruthless Inquisition. Rebellion is brewing. In Juviles, in the Kingdom of Granada, a young muleteer is drawn into the turmoil of the coming clashes. Son of a raped Muslim woman and a blue-eyed priest, rejected by both sides, Hernando the Nazarene will experience misery and glory, war and the splendours of Cordoba, without ever losing hope of reconciling faiths and peoples. "A fascinating historical fresco, already compared to Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose." Pierre Vavasseur - Le Parisien Born in Barcelona, Ildefonso Falcones still lives in the Catalan capital, where he works as a lawyer. An avid reader and connoisseur of medieval Spain, he dedicated ten years to writing The Cathedral of the Sea, his first novel, which earned him international fame and two million readers worldwide in one year.