Aventures i desventures de l’insòlit i admirable Joan Orpí, conquistador i fundador de la Nova Catalunya

Males Herbes, 2017 | Adventures and Misadventures of Joan Orpí

(Adventures and Misadventures of Joan Orpí, Conqueror and New Catalonia Founder) Joan Orpí (Piera, 1593 - New Barcelona, 1645) is one of the most unknown characters in Spanish history. In this torrential book we are told the odyssey that brought him first to Barcelona, later to Sevilla and finally to America, where he would experience all kinds of outlandish situations.
Using historical facts as raw material, and with stellar appearances of characters such as Miguel de Cervantes or the brigand Serrallonga among others, Besora converses with the satirical tradition of works such as Gargantua and Pantagruel, Gulliver's Travels or Don Quixote, to paint a fresco of Catalonia in the 17th century and the Golden Age of the Spanish empire, creating a novel, fresh, sharp and bursting with exuberant adventures.

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