
" Queen Juana of Castile, daughter and mother of kings, is the most charismatic and fascinating of a crucial period in the history of Spain. Beautiful, intelligent, confident and powerful, rebelled against repression and abuse, and campaigned tirelessly for being true to herself. In 1509, twenty-nine years, was declared insane and imprisoned in Tordesillas, where he remained until his death in 1555.
Four centuries later, through Lucia, a young woman of striking resemblance to Queen Juana of Castile, a historian seeks to solve the riddle of who was better known as Juana la Loca. "Mad with love, as has the official story, or was the victim of betrayal and power struggles? Seduced by the passion of the word, Lucy goes into a past that will alter your mind forever. In this novel, historical and contemporary, Juana of Castile returns to tell his own version of the facts. "
The novel by Nicaraguan Gioconda Belli , tells two parallel stories, first we have to Lucia, a young American admitted to a Madrid convent. Through she and Manuel, a forty to ending involved, know the life of Queen Juana, known unfairly nicknamed "the mad".
We have all known the stories that haunt around this historical, this novel The author attempts to do justice and show that the alleged insanity was just trying to rebel against the constraints to be borne by a woman.
Lucia is "meter" in the skin of Jane every week coming out of his confinement with the help of Manuel, a history professor obsessed with this historical and will be mixing stories while trying to decipher the complex personality of the queen and the secrets of your life hid. Uploaded
or life drama, the two things go together, it is easy to read and seduces us as the parchment of his title. It makes us live among the 70 in Madrid and Spain in the sixteenth century. We do take sides, she was crazy or was it just manipulation surrounding it to keep the power? Gioconda Belli
is a poet and it shows in the language of the book, full of subtle eroticism and a strength. At times tells Juana and other third parties, with the parts of Juana the ones I liked, what might have been a defect, because the protagonists are upstaged at the figure of the English queen. An ideal book for people who like well-told historical novel.
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