by Rafael Abalos · Círculo de Lectores, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467206135
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«Grimpow. El secreto de los sabios» is the fantasy novel by Rafael Ábalos, published by Círculo de Lectores in paperback (469 pages, in Spanish).
In 1313, young Grimpow finds a corpse and an enigma that lead him from abbeys to churches and medieval cities in search of the secret of the wise. While the Order of the Temple suffers a devastating attack and the Inquisition pursues its last fugitives, a stone hangs from his neck, capable of transmuting metals into gold and making its possessor wise.
First installment of the «Grimpow» series, originally published in 2005.
Recommended for readers of fantasy and medieval adventure, with a young protagonist.
Rafael Ábalos is a Spanish author of the bestseller book Grimpow: The Invisible Road (ISBN 0385733747) published in 2007. The children's fantasy novel was about a boy finding a mysterious amulet in France who becomes a focus of a "centuries-old mission" to enlighten humanity. According to a review in Publishers Weekly, Ábalos "blends the grand-scale storytelling prowess and epic quest element of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings with the cryptographic intrigue of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code", and gave it a positive review. The book was published by Random House.
