基本信息出版社：NAL Trade
页码：595 页
出版日期：2009年04月
ISBN：0451226682
International Standard Book Number：0451226682
条形码：9780451226686
EAN：9780451226686
版本：Reprint
装帧：Perfect Paperback
正文语种：英语

内容简介 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?
作者简介 Ildefonso Falcones is an author and a lawyer. This is his first novel, to which he dedicated four years of research.
编辑推荐 ?Believable and enthralling...so beautifully structured that the last sixty pages detonate like a string of firecrackers.?
?The Washington Post

?An absorbing epic...Falcones?s rich portrait of medieval society is fascinating.?
?Publishers Weekly