by Judith Merkle Riley · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408052203
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«El oráculo de cristal» is the historical and fantasy novel by Judith Merkle Riley, published by Planeta in paperback (458 pages, in Spanish).
France, winter 1674. Thirteen-year-old orphan Genevieve Pasquier tries to drown herself in the Seine and is rescued by a sorceress who initiates her into magic and divination. As she grows, her beauty opens the doors of Louis XIV's court, where she acts as a political spy amid occultism, intrigues, and love affairs while seeking to avenge her father.
The Spanish edition is a translation of The Oracle Glass and carries the subtitle «Magia y brujería en la corte del Rey Sol».
For readers of historical fiction with an interest in Louis XIV's court, espionage, and the occult.
Judith Merkle Riley was an American political scientist and novelist. Writing as Judith A. Merkle, she published Management and Ideology: The Legacy of the International Scientific Management Movement (1980), a study of scientific management reviewed in major historical journals. Beginning in 1988, under her married name, she wrote six historical novels set in late medieval and early modern Europe.
