by Miguel Delibes · Booket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423336067
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«El hereje» is the historical novel by Miguel Delibes, published by Booket in paperback (504 pages, in Spanish).
The work follows the life and spiritual journey of Cipriano Salcedo, a man from sixteenth-century Valladolid, and portrays the life, customs and landscapes of the city in the time of Charles V. The plot interweaves trade with Flanders and the arrival of Lutheran ideas in the most advanced religious communities of the Spain of that era, such as that of Valladolid.
The novel won the National Narrative Prize in 1999, an award listed on Goodreads and which places it in Delibes's late output.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction and for those who wish to explore the narrative work of Miguel Delibes.
Miguel Delibes Setién was a Spanish novelist, journalist and newspaper editor associated with the Generation of '36 movement. From 1975 until his death, he was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy, where he occupied letter "e" seat. Educated in commerce, he began his career as a cartoonist and columnist. He later became the editor for the regional newspaper El Norte de Castilla before gradually devoting himself exclusively to writing novels.
