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The fact that he started his literary career writing about horses, led to Christiane Gohl German-born and New Zealand in the heart, decided to seek a pen to sign his works of historical fiction, as Sarah Lark, who wrote under the In the land of the white cloud, one of his books sold, or Richard Jordan, with which he signs his latest novel, Doctor of Mainz, who presented this afternoon in Cartagena in the twelfth week of the historical novel.
Gohl, or better said Jordan, who has been a tour guide in New Zealand, a land that I love, focuses on his latest work in the life of a woman who, in the Middle Ages and the plague as a backdrop, more nothing to be a doctor and fight this disease. It is the portrait of an era in which being female and aspirations was not compatible, and all playing different themes such as love, politics or religion, the writer noted.
SYNOPSIS
In the city of Mainz, on a cold night in 1330, a midwife goes to the house of a Jewish merchant Benjamin Speyer.
The cry of a young woman giving birth in the street stopped his way.
Despite all their efforts, the girl's mother dies, and the Speyer put the child in the care of a Christian family who serve at home.
Lucy grows between the poverty of his host family and the sophisticated world of Speyer, in which the nurse will make Arabic Al Shifa repository of knowledge about medicine.
When the shadow of the plague hangs over much of the country, Lucy must use their best efforts to save his people and stop the fatal epidemic.
Dr. Ricarda Jordan will present in Mainz this afternoon, at 19.30 am at the Cultural Center CajaMurcia. Also today, the state attorney, lawyer of the Parliament and general secretary and Exchange Markets, Luis M .
Cazorla, will give a lecture on his novel The City and the archaeologist Ivan lucus Negueruela Murcia presented with a miter.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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