by Alfred Bosch · Labutxaca · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496863552
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«1714», subtitled «La gran novel·la sobre l'onze de setembre», is the historical novel by Alfred Bosch published by Labutxaca in paperback (732 pages, in Catalan).
John Sinclair, an English adventurer, is tasked with persuading the Catalans to accept Philip V as king during the War of the Spanish Succession. The protagonist, skeptical and uncommitted, travels through the European courts from Versailles to Bourbon Madrid, via London and Vienna. His personal journey becomes the chronicle of a conversion as the conflict and the defense of Catalan liberties move towards the denouement of 1714.
Work in Catalan by Alfred Bosch (Barcelona, 1961). It belongs to the «1714» trilogy, which brings together the novels «Set de rei», «Sota la pell del diable» and «Toc de vespres».
Alfred Bosch i Pascual is a Catalan academic, journalist, author, politician and a former Minister of Foreign Action, Institutional Relations and Transparency of Catalonia. He was previously a member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain and a member of Barcelona City Council.
