by Jesús Sánchez Adalid · Booket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408079194
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«El alma de la ciudad» is the historical novel by Jesús Sánchez Adalid, published by Booket in paperback (656 pages, in Spanish).
In the midst of the Middle Ages, with the Reconquista advancing against Almohad power, the action revolves around the founding of the city of Ambrosía by King Alfonso VII. Blasco Jiménez, the right-hand man of the bishop of Ambrosía, meets a woman who reveals to him love and the mysteries of the Kabbalah, while he weighs loyalty to the newly founded city against his longing for freedom.
It is the first installment of Booket's Novela histórica collection, published in 2008, and won the Fernando Lara Novel Prize in 2007.
For readers of historical fiction set during the Reconquista and of literary fiction in Spanish.
