Promise me you'll be free / Promet-me you'll lliure Jorge Molist
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1st edition, March 2011
Genre: Historical fiction
767 pgs . / 784 pgs.
ISBN: 9788484609537 (cast.)
ISBN: 9788466413456 (cat.)
Although the historical novel has never ceased to be fashionable, one can say that in recent years has come up with more or less intense bouts. In this 2011, quarter that ends in the Sant Jordi, publishers have oiled their machinery with bets point to Barcelona as the setting for several plots set in different historical settings. An ambitious first edition of 80,000 and 20,000 copies in Castilian Catalan, and Today's column to the reader put the new novel by Jorge Molist, author specializing in the historical genre that has already demonstrated its solvency ring and La reina oculta .
Promise me you'll be free ( Promet-me you'll lliure ) tells the story of transformation of the young Joan Serra, a native of Llafranc Empordà county, which Saracen corsairs sees his father killed and taken as slaves to his mother and sisters. Before his death the father of Joan, makes him promise to his son that, above all, never stop fighting for their freedom. With these words engraved in the memory ("Promise me you'll be free"), Serra goes to Barcelona, \u200b\u200bLlafranc expelled from religious order to try to build there a future with his younger brother, who also escaped the attack. However, Joan can not head off to find his family and avenge the death of his father.
The plot takes place in the last years of the fifteenth century, somewhere between the twilight of the Middle Ages and early Renaissance lights. The structure is quite classical, in fact, the plot is not far from the line is crossed by the genus as previous novels The Cathedral of the Sea, Ildefonso Falcones, or I'll give land of Chufo Llorens. In all, the protagonist is a child who, after losing their parents, must face the future alone, which falls for a girl of a different class or religion, you Muslim slave and a friend will gradually climb socially various adventures while living in Barcelona and surroundings.
However, the novel does not stagnate Molist in Barcelona but the Catalan capital is a more scenarios through which it passes the protagonist (Rome, Naples and Sicily are others), but is in Barcelona where Joan Serra start being a man and is there also
where it contacts the librarian profession, work pervades each of these adventures. Molist manages to keep the pace throughout the novel (of those readings is that, even exceed seven hundred pages, eaten and enjoyed a sigh), the characters are well resolved, which makes the reader will take care, even ill. And in Promise me you'll be free bad are not so bad and the good guys sometimes are not as good.
must be said, however, that squeaks too that the author put conversations into the mouths of his characters in which one speaks with admiration of the Renaissance (as is, textual, and in capital letters), knowing that no one who lived at the end of XV speak of a cultural movement that was not coined until several centuries later. Anyway, as a historical novel, fulfills what is expected of her: that entretanga (including moves), to make palatable the documentation, the plot is believable and the characters seem real flesh and blood, despite that it must be said, here the characters are the feelings to the surface and thrown to mourn too easily.
Promise me you'll be free ( Promet-me you'll lliure ) tells the story of transformation of the young Joan Serra, a native of Llafranc Empordà county, which Saracen corsairs sees his father killed and taken as slaves to his mother and sisters. Before his death the father of Joan, makes him promise to his son that, above all, never stop fighting for their freedom. With these words engraved in the memory ("Promise me you'll be free"), Serra goes to Barcelona, \u200b\u200bLlafranc expelled from religious order to try to build there a future with his younger brother, who also escaped the attack. However, Joan can not head off to find his family and avenge the death of his father.
The plot takes place in the last years of the fifteenth century, somewhere between the twilight of the Middle Ages and early Renaissance lights. The structure is quite classical, in fact, the plot is not far from the line is crossed by the genus as previous novels The Cathedral of the Sea, Ildefonso Falcones, or I'll give land of Chufo Llorens. In all, the protagonist is a child who, after losing their parents, must face the future alone, which falls for a girl of a different class or religion, you Muslim slave and a friend will gradually climb socially various adventures while living in Barcelona and surroundings.
However, the novel does not stagnate Molist in Barcelona but the Catalan capital is a more scenarios through which it passes the protagonist (Rome, Naples and Sicily are others), but is in Barcelona where Joan Serra start being a man and is there also
where it contacts the librarian profession, work pervades each of these adventures. Molist manages to keep the pace throughout the novel (of those readings is that, even exceed seven hundred pages, eaten and enjoyed a sigh), the characters are well resolved, which makes the reader will take care, even ill. And in Promise me you'll be free bad are not so bad and the good guys sometimes are not as good. must be said, however, that squeaks too that the author put conversations into the mouths of his characters in which one speaks with admiration of the Renaissance (as is, textual, and in capital letters), knowing that no one who lived at the end of XV speak of a cultural movement that was not coined until several centuries later. Anyway, as a historical novel, fulfills what is expected of her: that entretanga (including moves), to make palatable the documentation, the plot is believable and the characters seem real flesh and blood, despite that it must be said, here the characters are the feelings to the surface and thrown to mourn too easily.
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