Author: Jesús Sánchez Adalid
This afternoon at 7 p.m., Casa Árabe presents the book Tres halcones para Tamerlán (Three Hawks for Tamerlan), by Jesús Sánchez Adalid (in the photo), published by Harper Collins. Discover this historical epic in which intrigue and mystery will accompany the protagonist on his journey to Samarkand. Free admission until full capacity. The presentation will take place in Spanish.
Segovia, 1403: an eastern emissary offered King Henry III an unusual gift: three women of extraordinary beauty. Castile was to respond with a gift of equal or greater value. The choice: three royal hawks. Jesús Sánchez Adalid invites you to relive this historical epic through the eyes of Alvar, a young apprentice falconer who accompanies the royal embassy to guard the valuable birds. Thus begins a dazzling journey that will take you across the Mediterranean to Constantinople, passing through the ruins of Troy and the splendor of Byzantium, to the steppes of Central Asia and the glow of Samarkand. It will be an adventure of resistance and faith, marked by storms, intrigues between Venetians and Genoese, mysterious stopovers in remote islands and the inner struggle of a boy who learns to look at the world with new eyes.
With exquisite and enveloping prose, Sánchez Adalid brings to today’s readers a medieval jewel almost erased from the memory of Spain, but whose magnitude rivals the great expeditions of the past: the mythical chronicle Embajada a Tamerlán written by Ruy González de Clavijo in the early 15th century.
The presentation will be attended by Jorge Urbiola, who has been Ambassador of Spain to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan and previously Deputy Director-General for Eastern Europe and Central Asia at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation.
Jesús Sánchez Adalid graduated in Law from the University of Extremadura and in Canon Law from the Pontifical University of Salamanca, and completed doctoral courses at the Complutense University of Madrid. After serving as judge for two years, he studied philosophy and theology and is now a priest in Llerena (Badajoz). Author of numerous historical novels -among them La luz del Oriente, El mozárabe, El cautivo or La sublime puerta-, he has received, among others, the XII Premio de Novela Fernando Lara and the Premio Alfonso X de Novela Histórica (2012). In 2018 he presented Los baños del pozo azul, at Casa Árabe.