by Jesús Torbado · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408010197
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«El peregrino» is the historical novel by Jesús Torbado, published by Planeta in paperback (448 pages, in Spanish).
A French pilgrim travels the Camino de Santiago in the 11th century. The work portrays medieval Spain with a varied mosaic of saints, sinners, rogues and devotees who cross paths on the route, and reflects the customs and tensions of an era in which faith and survival were intertwined.
It won the Ateneo de Sevilla Prize in 1993 and is part of the Spanish and Latin American Authors collection.
Readers of historical fiction and pilgrimage tales; also those who want to learn about the Camino de Santiago through fiction.
Jesús Torbado was a Spanish writer, journalist and traveler. He was born in León and studied journalism in Madrid. He won the 1965 Premio Alfaguara for his novel Las corrupciones. In 1976, he won the Premio Planeta for En el día de hoy, an alternate history about the Spanish Civil War. In 1993, he won the Premio Ateneo de Sevilla for El peregrino.
