El sol bajo la seda

Synopsis of El sol bajo la seda

«El sol bajo la seda» is the historical novel by Éric Marchal, published by Grijalbo in paperback (736 pages, in Spanish).

At the end of the 17th century, the traveling surgeon Nicolas Déruet is imprisoned after an operation in which the patient dies and ends up exiled in the army fighting against the Turks. Between battlefields and military hospitals, he broadens his medical knowledge and, on returning to Lorraine, defends the art of surgery against the faculty doctors at the Saint-Charles hospital. His story mixes war, passion and courtly intrigues, with two women in his life: the midwife Marianne Pajot and the marquise Rosa de Cornelli.

Part of Grijalbo's Historical Novel collection. Translation by Joan Riambau Moller.

Recommended for readers of historical fiction and period fiction set in 17th-century Europe.