Nella Barcellona del XIV secolo, un bambino di nome Arnau segue affascinato la costruzione della Chiesa di Santa Maria del Mar, che da allora in poi diverrà il centro di tutta la sua avventurosa vita. Sullo sfondo l'inquisizione, che porterà pain and misery in people's lives and undermine the uneasy relations between Christians, Muslims and Jews. Arnau grow with the cathedral, will become an integral part of city life, fall in love and friendships will tighten, and rivals will have to participate in the fratricide wars' inside of the English kingdom, forever linked to his Church and his city.
The story opens with a marriage between two farmers, who are happy place until the arrival of the Count, which demands the right of the Ius primae noctis. Francesca from the violence, the bride, will never recover again, and forcibly taken to the palace to act as nanny to the children of the count, it will fall prey to depression. The husband, who can not do anything to take back the bride, now undermined mentally and physically able to recover Arnau and flee with him to Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwhere he spent a year, can obtain citizenship and escape from the clutches of the Count. Just
in the Catalan city, Arnau remain fascinated by the laying of stones for the construction of the cathedral, admiring the bearers of stone, and soon succeeded in becoming one of them, admired for his strength and power. His social life will grow with the cathedral, making him, after many vicissitudes and injustices, a respected banker. In his life, occupies an important place for Joanet love, the passion of youth, however, intended to marry an old man, and one for Mary, his wife, who was killed by the plague that rages throughout Europe.
Cathedral del Mar is a novel full of history, in which the events that marked the Dark Ages in Spain play a significant role in the fantastic narrative, without making it a teaching book. Arnau's life could be the life of an ordinary person in the fourteenth century Barcelona, \u200b\u200band his pain, his loves, his friends, are those of an ordinary man, surrounded by the Inquisition, with its blacks and violent corners, the plague, the wars for the throne. Arnau's strength is that of good people that can not be bent by fate and injustice, but manages to live life with dignity, finishing with honor and respect by all.
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