Translation Rights TQE / Reconstruction

In 1535, many rebellions against the Catholic Church and the Pope take place in the heart of a Europe struck by Lutheranism.  In the German city of Münster, Bernd Rothman, a particularly gifted orator, becomes the spiritual leader of the revolt against the church’s corrupt hierarchy.  Within the city walls, religious liberty is claimed and brings the presence of pilgrims, prophets and preachers.  Outside the city, however, the Catholic armies get ready for the most merciless punishment.  Eighteen years later, when the uprising of Münster is only a vague memory and the Inquisition harshly persecutes all types of heresy, the general inquisitor of Lyon must urgently identify the author of an especially venomous anonymous manuscript,  whose diffusion must be quickly intercepted.  It is the work of a brilliant philologist and theologian, who is also an expert in medicine, capable of sustaining the most heterodox theories about bodily functions.  Joachim Pfister, an educated engraver of print types that deals with various workshops in France, must follow his lead.

Antonio Orejudo was born in Madrid in 1963. He has a doctorate in Spanish Philology and, for seven years, worked as a Spanish literature professor in different universities throughout the United States. He is currently a professor in the University of Almería and has spent a year as a visiting professor in the University of Amsterdam. Fabulosas narraciones por historias won the XX Tigre Juan Prize for the best first novel in 1997, one year after its publication. In 2000 he won the XV Andalucía Prize for Novel with Ventajas de viajar en tren (Advantages of Travelling by Train). Reconstrucción (Reconstruction, 2005), his most recent novel, has been translated into German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Korean and Dutch, and the German translation in particular was described as “the year’s most impressive Spanish book”, according to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung