by Zoé Oldenbourg, María Barbeito y Cerviño · Circulo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422635574
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«La piedra angular» is the historical novel by Zoé Oldenbourg, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (514 pages, in Spanish).
The action is set in thirteenth-century feudal France and interweaves the journey of the elderly Baron Ansiau de Linnieres to the Holy Land with the life of his son Herbert and grandson Haugenier on the family estate. War, Christian faith, marital alliances and social codes mark three generations caught between duty and affection.
Winner of the Prix Femina in 1953; originally published as La pierre angulaire. 1992 edition in Spanish, translated by María Barbeito y Cerviño with an introduction by Carlos Alvar.
For fans of medieval historical fiction, the Crusades and feudal France.
Zoé Oldenbourg was a Russian-born French popular historian and novelist who specialized in medieval French history, in particular the Crusades and Cathars.
