by Teresa Moure · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467222555
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«Hierba mora» is the novel by Teresa Moure, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (396 pages, in Spanish).
The novel interweaves the lives of three women from different eras: Queen Christina of Sweden, the Dutch Hélène Jans, Descartes's lover, and the student Inés Andrade. Through letters, poems, recipe books and herbals, Teresa Moure offers an intimate and human portrait of Descartes and champions female passion and wisdom against pure rationality.
The novel, originally published in Galician as «Herba moura», won the Xerais Novel Prize 2005 and the Galician Narrative Critics' Prize.
For readers of literary fiction interested in the role of women in history and in an alternative view of the figure of Descartes.
