El cuarto jinete
Mérida: Editiones Era, 2021. First Edition. Paperback. 237p., indices, wrps. New. Item #77799
ISBN: 9786074456042
"El Cuarto Jinete" immerses us with unprecedented realism in that terrible moment. We see the friars address painful questions to God, flagellant fanatics blame everything on the Jews, healthy or dying sinners cry out for repentance. In a desolate Paris, orphaned children beg and steal to survive, Christian gravediggers and Jews from the Hevra Kadisha rush about their funereal and multiplied task, while others, still brimming with vitality, give themselves over to enjoyment without wasting time or They vainly try to escape from the epidemic. And there are those who seek to alleviate the suffering and loneliness of the incurable: the nursing nuns and Abu Ali Ibn Mohamed de Ronda, a wise and compassionate doctor disguised as Pedro de Hispania, and his young disciple, whose apprenticeship in compassion will be an arduous conquest. of the soul. With a discreet but amazing erudition, Verónica Murguía gives powerful life to the spiritual horizon of the late Middle Ages, but also to the atmosphere, the belongings, clothes and furniture, and even to the color, texture, smell of that distant world, come close in the comforting beauty of these pages.
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