by Katherine Howe · Editorial Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788408091585
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«El libro de los hechizos» is the historical mystery novel by Katherine Howe, published by Editorial Planeta in hardcover (424 pages, in Spanish).
Connie, an aspiring history professor at Harvard, prepares her doctoral thesis while clearing out her grandmother's house in Salem. There, inside a Bible, she finds a key that holds a paper with a strange inscription. Her research takes her back to the 1692 witch hunt and to a book that has influenced the lives of eight women for centuries.
First novel by Katherine Howe, originally published as «The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane»; first installment in the The Physick Book series. Translated by Gerardo Di Masso.
For readers of historical fiction and mystery, interested in witchcraft, family secrets, and the Salem witch hunt.
Katherine Howe is an American novelist who lives in New England and New York City. She specializes in historical novels which she uses to query ideas about "the contingent nature of reality and belief." Her debut novel was the New York Times Bestseller The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (2009), related to the Salem witch trials. Its success led to her being a guest on several TV news shows, as well as "Salem: Unmasking The Devil" on the National Geographic Channel.
