by Katherine Howe · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467241150
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«El libro de los hechizos» is the historical mystery novel by Katherine Howe, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (400 pages, in Spanish).
A graduate student at Harvard spends the summer in her grandmother's abandoned house, near Salem. Inside a seventeenth-century Bible she finds a key with a parchment fragment: the name Deliverance Dane. Her research on that woman connects her to the Salem witch trials and to a book of forbidden knowledge.
First installment of the The Physick Book series. Original title: «The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane» (2009), in English; translation by Gerardo Di Masso.
For readers of historical fiction, mystery, and witch tales, with two timelines between seventeenth-century Salem and the present day.
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.
