Ildefonso Falcones’ new novel ‘La reina descalza’ will be on sale the 21st of February

Barcelona (ACN) - Ildefonso Falcones, a lawyer by profession who became an internationally acclaimed writer in 2006 thanks to his best-selling debut ‘Cathedral of the Sea’, set in medieval Barcelona, will publish his third novel ‘La reina descalza’ on the 21^st of February. The book, which will be on sale at the same time in Spain, Latin America and the United States, is about the friendship, passion and revenge between two women from Madrid and Seville in the 18^th century, and is a call to freedom.

The author rose to fame thanks to his best selling ‘Cathedral of the Sea’, a historical novel set in medieval Barcelona, his home town. The book sold seven million copies, was published in 40 countries, and led to Falcones’ winning the Italian literary prize Giovanni Boccaccio for best foreign author in 2007 and the Fulbert de Chartres French literary prize in 2009.

Through the construction of the Santa Maria del Mar church, located in the tradesman and fisherman’s neighbourhood of La Ribera, the ‘Cathedral of the Sea’ portrays the successful life of Arnau, a man who was once a servant boy in the countryside and to whom the city offers the opportunity to become a free citizen.