Discover the 3 best books by Jorge Molist

With the XXIII Fernando Lara novel award under the arm, George Molist confirmed the high level of skill achieved in this increasingly difficult task of storytelling. The particular vital becoming of this Catalan author would never initially point to literature as a form of nothing. But once the writer that Jorge Molist carried within was able to express himself comfortably, under the protection of a well-crafted destiny, his pen has not stopped writing new and exciting mystery novels with a marked historical edge.

Starting to write novels from the age of forty, as is the case of Jorge Molist, can have several positive aspects, among them it will surely serve to avoid falling into haste, into the imperious youthful need to finish that first novel that Nobody imagined you were writing.

Molist's novels, born from this creative maturity, always provide that feeling of perfect stitching both in the plot and in the profile of the characters. If imagination, the desire to tell something, the time to do it and the desire to put together a good story are added to the job, it ends up happening as with this author who has already become one of the essential historical novels in Spain and has already been exported to many other countries. .

Top 3 recommended novels by Jorge Molist

Ash time

There was a time when a Spanish family saga, originally from the town of Borja (Zaragoza), ruled with an iron hand the designs of the Roman Empire, or that can be understood from the power of the Church in which the papacies of Calixto III came to occupy and Alexander IV.

In this novel we are located in the last decade of the XNUMXth century. It is to be understood that the growing apogee of the kingdom of Castile, after the union with Aragon, somehow derived from this irruption of the Hispanic in Rome.

Necessary setting aside, the novel tells us about Joan and Anna, a married couple who run a bookstore and who soon find themselves involved in great conflicts when a descendant of the Borgia falls in love with Anna.

Pushed by circumstances, Joan Serra will have to face a very different destiny from the one he imagined running his bookstore. Together with Joan, we will go through peak moments in history, in the dim light of a Borgia power that is weakening due to their own vanities and the anger of those who never considered them worthy leaders of the Catholic Church.

Ash time

The hidden queen

It is the year 1208. The known world is a fortified Europe with its castles as the basic emblem of the feudal domains.

The Church is the only center of power and knowledge and is very much guarded from treasuring great secrets at the dawn of humanity as a great civilization. Peyre de Castelnou is directly commissioned by Pope Innocent III to transport invaluable documentation to Rome that threatens to destabilize ecclesiastical power over all the kingdoms of Europe.

The documentation never reaches Rome and Count Ramón VI of Tolosa is accused as the original possessor of the documents. The Pope was not content with indicting the count, he ordered the entire area of ​​Occitania to be devastated, where he suspected that the valuable documentation could be found.

What becomes a political and military operation led by the Catholic Church ends up having repercussions, of course, on various figures in the area such as Bruna de Béziers or Guillermo. From their disparate perspectives and roles in this story, the count, Bruna and Guillermo branch out into a hectic narrative composition in which their encounters awaken passions, conflicts, violence and the magical perspective of a medieval world sustained by a multitude of enigmas.

The hidden queen

Promise me that you will be free

Jorge Molist's ability to address very different historical scenarios is evident in this novel focused again on the XNUMXth century and on a small town such as Llafranc, on the Girona coast.

The starting point, built around that idea of ​​revenge that serves so well as a magnetic foundation for any reader, ends up being filled with new perspectives thanks to the character of Joan Serra... Do you remember the bookseller from Time of Ashes?

Well, this is where everything can be born ... Joan has survived her father, murdered and the kidnapping of her mother and sister. And despite being too young, Joan knows that her vital task cannot be other than rescuing her family. But, perhaps to blur the idea of ​​the crudest revenge, in Joan we also discover a character with his own dreams.

For him, happiness would be to reunite with his mother and sister, of course, but he would also be capable of everything to open a bookstore anywhere in the world, there where he can teach people how much books can offer in a time like the XNUMXth century, the century of innovations, in which hope slipped like a wisp of light between so many centuries of darkness. In fact, the promise to his dying father extended the idea of ​​getting that promised freedom

Promise me that you will be free
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