El comendador de las sombras | Carlos Fortea | book new | sale

Carlos Fortea

edebé : periscopio | 2013

200 | 4h 45m

spanish | softcover | new | sale

20,5cm x 13cm | 230gr

The first time the name of the Commander of Shadows came to me was through a bibliographical quote. I was then twenty-three years old, with a modest position at the University and, above all, with Silvia. I was interested in the documents that I handled for the sake of my work – a doctoral thesis on documentary traces of military orders – but much more in the eyes and lips and words of my partner. What I did not imagine was that, pursuing that clue that took me back to a distant medieval past, almost as if playing at being a detective of History, my real and contemporary world was going to be so affected...