The thing is about manuscripts. Nothing better for this than reinventing a great like Fernando de Rojas to end up giving a metaliterary residue to a plot that in its most natural aspect also dazzles the reader. The commitment of Luis Garcia Jambrina in this series already obtains its fruits with a legion of spirited readers of the adventures and misadventures of the creator of La Celestina.
29 May 1525. A pilgrim is assassinated shortly before reaching the city of Burgos; It is one more in a series of strange deaths that have occurred in the different stages of the French Way. The Archbishop of Santiago asks Ferdinand de Rojas to take over the investigation of the case.
The famous researcher will have to do the the Camino de Santiago in pursuit of the criminals' footprints and for this he will have the help of Elías do Cebreiro, clergyman and archivist of the Compostela cathedral. On their way they will meet all kinds of challenges and dangers, they will enter hidden and mysterious places and they will meet numerous travelers, each one with their secret in tow.
Thanks to its careful historical setting, this novel shows an unpublished face of the Jacobean route in a time of great turbulence in which the pilgrimage is in question because of the angry attacks of Luther, the false pilgrims who take advantage of it and the rivalries between those who try to control it and profit.
The clay manuscript It is not just a historical intrigue novel full of adventures, conflicts and surprises. It is also a journey in search of truth and personal transformation and a story of friendship forged in the harshness and difficulties of the Camino. With it the author takes a step further on the path started with The stone manuscript, with which he has obtained an extraordinary success with the public and critics.
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