by Catherine Hermary-Vieille · MR · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788427015883
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«Loca de amor» is the historical novel by Catherine Hermary-Vieille, published by Ediciones Martínez Roca in paperback (335 pages, in Spanish).
The novel recreates the life of Juana of Castile, daughter of the Catholic Monarchs and wife of Philip the Handsome. Widowed, she was imprisoned in Tordesillas for over forty years while her son Charles V kept watch over her. Hermary-Vieille reconstructs the keys to that confinement and draws the portrait of a woman in love, abandoned, deceived and betrayed.
Translation by Manuel Serrat Crespo. Work originally published as «Un amour fou» (1991), winner of the Prix Maison de la Presse.
For readers of historical fiction interested in sixteenth-century Spain and the figure of Juana of Castile.
Catherine Hermary-Vieille is a French writer, and winner of the Prix Femina 1981, for Le Grand Vizir de la nuit.
