by Alfonso Mateo-Sagasta · ZETA BOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496581005
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«El olor de las especias» is the historical novel by Alfonso Mateo-Sagasta, published by Zeta Bolsillo in paperback (304 pages, in Spanish).
In February 962, four knights from Castile pursue some Leonese who have stolen their flock. Their mistake in executing the leader of the raid, a border count, brings them a royal sentence. Fernán González sends them to Córdoba as escorts for the deposed Ordoño IV, on a journey through a peninsula where Christians, Jews and Arabs coexist.
The work originally appeared in 2003 and this paperback edition came out in February 2006, within the Best Seller Zeta Bolsillo collection.
For readers of historical fiction interested in medieval Spain and the portrayal of the three cultures: Christian, Jewish and Arab.
