by Andrés Ibáñez · LUMEN · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788426423771
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«Leonís. Vida de una mujer» is the historical novel by Andrés Ibáñez, published by Lumen in hardcover (864 pages, in Spanish).
Inés de Padilla is born in 1469 and at fifteen manages to enter the University of Salamanca, at a time when study was forbidden to women. After joining the court of the Catholic Monarchs as a lady-in-waiting to Joanna the Mad, she takes part in the Revolt of the Comuneros. At the beginning of the 16th century she discovers she has not aged since the age of twenty-five and remains alive, dodging dangers, until the dawn of the 21st century, thus crossing the history of Spain and the role of women through the centuries.
Novel published in 2022 in Lumen's Narrativa collection.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction and literary fiction seeking an extensive narrative, with an immortal female protagonist and a journey through the history of Spain.
Spanish writer, poet and literary critic
