The City of Tears

Resumen del libro

June 1572: for ten, violent years the Wars of Religion have raged across France. Neighbours have become enemies, countless lives have been lost, the country has been torn apart over matters of religion, citizenship and sovereignty. But now a precarious peace is in the balance: a royal wedding has been negotiated by Catherine de' Medici and Jeanne d'Albret, an alliance between the Catholic Crown and Henri, the Huguenot king of Navarre. It is a marriage that could see France reunited at last.

Meanwhile in Puivert, an invitation has arrived for Minou Joubert and her family to attend this historic wedding in Paris in August. But what Minou does not know is that the Joubert family's oldest enemy, Vidal, will also be there. Nor that, within days of the marriage, on the eve of the Feast Day of St Bartholomew's, Minou's family will be scattered to the four winds and one of her beloved children will have disappeared without trace . . .

A breath-taking novel of revenge, persecution and loss, sweeping from Paris and Chartres to the City of Tears itself - the great refugee city of Amsterdam - this is a story of one family's fight to stay together, to survive and to find each other, against the devastating tides of history . . .

Biografía del autor

Kate Mosse es autora de obras de teatro y ensayos, además de haber escrito novela y colecciones de cuentos. Premiada con varios galardones, es la autora de la aclamada Trilogía del Languedoc que incluye las novelas El laberinto, Sepulcro y Citadel. Sus obras han sido traducidas a 36 lenguas en más de 40 países.<br> Es la fundadora del premio Womenx{0026} x02019;s Prize for Fiction, que premia la mejor obra escrita por una mujer en Reino Unido, y es también la vicepresidenta del National Theater de Londres.<br> Divide su tiempo entre Chichester, en West Sussex (Reino Unido), y Carcasona, donde escribió La ciudad del fuego y La ciudad de las lágrimas, primeros dos volúmenes de su celebrada serie Las crónicas de la familia Joubert, de la que El barco fantasma es su tercera entrega.