by Miguel Delibes · Ediciones Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423340873
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«El hereje» is the historical novel by Miguel Delibes, published by Ediciones Destino in paperback (432 pages, in Spanish).
In 1517, the year of Luther's theses, Cipriano Salcedo is born in Valladolid. An orphan marked by the loss of his wet nurse Minervina, he becomes a merchant and contacts the Protestant circles operating in secret. The repression of the Holy Office runs through his life, and the novel traverses the Valladolid of Charles V and human passions.
Tenth-anniversary edition of the novel, originally published in 1998 and revised by the author, in the Áncora & Delfín collection. The novel won the National Narrative Prize in 1999.
For readers of historical fiction and Spanish narrative, interested in 16th-century Valladolid and the 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.
