Born in Alicante on June 12, 1962, Matilde Asensi is one of the most successful Spanish writers of the millennium, with more than 20 million readers worldwide. The author of a historical and adventure literature whose boom took place in the early 2000s, this journalist and writer continues to captivate readers with her stories. We bring you all the books by Matilde Asensi so that, if you haven't already, you can discover this great writer.
The Amber Room (1999)
Matilde Asensi's literary debut came from the Plaza y Janés publishing house, despite being reissued by Planeta in 2006. An addictive plot that presents the one known as Chess Group, whose members search for the painting "The Amber Room", one of the canvases lost during the art looting carried out by Nazi soldiers in 1941 in Soviet countries. Despite suggesting a continuation in his epilogue, Asensi has not yet written a second part.
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Jacobus (2000)
From the present and the First World War, Matilde Asensi immersed us in the end of the crusades, more specifically in the dissolution of the Order of the Templars at the beginning of the fourteenth century. The plot begins with the return to the Iberian Peninsula of Galceran de Born, monk of the Order of the Hospital, enemy of the Templars. After leaving in search of certain books to translate and a young man with a mysterious pendant, the protagonist is warned by Pope Clement, who entrusts him with the mission of discovering the murderer of his predecessor, Pope Clement V and King Philip IV of France. , who died after the execution of the Grand Master of the Templars.
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The Last Cat (2001)
And nail sales of 1.25 million copies, one of the most successful books by Matilde Asensi it still continues to be a benchmark for lovers of contemporary historical novels. The protagonist of this novel is Ottavia Salina, a nun who discovers seven Greek letters and seven crosses marked on the corpse of a young Ethiopian woman. Beside him, he finds pieces of wood that at first little make him suspect that they have to do with the Vera Cruz, whose pieces are being stolen around the world. Of all the Matilde Asensi books, this is one of our favorites.
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The Lost Origin (2003)
More exotic in character and set in our days, The lost origin, links past and present through a Adventure novel only. The protagonist of the novel is Arnau, a hacker from Barcelona whose brother suffers from Cotard's syndrome (or denial syndrome). After investigating his brother's research on the origin of the Yatiris sect and the Aymara language (so archaic that it could simulate computer language), Arnao proposes to travel to Bolivia to discover the origin of the curse that could have caused his brother's illness.
Pilgrimage (2004)
Through the eyes of the rebel Jonás, son of the militant Galcerán de Born, we know a the Camino de Santiago full of rites that the young protagonist sets out to fulfill together with an ancient Templar after making a promise to initiatory chivalry. Of all the books by Matilde Asensi, pilgrimage It is, more than a story as such, a perfect excuse to explore the towns and customs of an environment such as that of the Jacobean Route during the XNUMXth century.
Everything under the sky (2006)
Asensi makes us travel to that China full of secrets and hidden treasures displayed on the epic map of All under the sky. The story begins with the discovery of the protagonist, Ana, a Spanish teacher in Paris, of her husband's death in Shanghai. After arriving in the Asian country, the young woman will discover that after her death the search for the treasure of the First Emperor could be hidden, whose tomb lies in the city of Xián. An adventure against the clock to which is added the persecution by a mafia that calls itself the Green Band and the imperial eunuchs.
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Firm ground (2007)
Throughout her bibliography, Matilde Asensi had addressed the historical mysteries of the Amazon jungle, China or medieval Europe, but she still had a pending framework: travel to America during the seventeenth century. Known as the Martín Ojo de Plata trilogy, or the great Spanish Golden Age Saga, Tierra Firme became the first volume of a new challenge for the author. There is the story of a woman, Catalina Solís, who must adopt the personality of her brother Martín, killed by some English pirates during an expedition to the New World. After spending two years on a desert island, Catalina becomes Martín Ojo de Plata, one of the most vengeful smugglers in the Caribbean.
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Vengeance in Seville (2010)
After the adventures of Tierra firme, Catalina Solís returned to Spain in 1607, more specifically to the city of Seville, where she proposed to assassinate the Curvo, an important family of merchants from the New World. A book that serves as a great testimony of a time as miserable and splendid as was the Spanish Golden Age.
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The conspiracy of Cortés (2012)
Annihilating the Curvo becomes Catalina Solís' motive to unmask the merchant family, this time from the New World. The key piece of the story falls on the treasure map of Hernán Cortés, through which the Curvos seek to overthrow the king of Spain. An epic finishing touch for the intense journey that Asensi proposes to us with his only trilogy so far.
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The return of the cat (2015)
The successful The Last Caton deserved a second part that took fourteen years to arrive, also becoming a great success. Once again, Ottavia Salina, accompanied by Farag Boswell, the historian of the Greco-Roman Museum of Alexandria whom we already met in the first book, sets out to solve the mysteries that date back to the same XNUMXst century, the same period. Silk Road.
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