About the author
Ildefonso Falconesmarried and father of four children, is a lawyer and writer. The cathedral of the seahis first novel, became an unprecedented global publishing phenomenon, recognized by both readers and critics and published in more than forty countries. It was also the recipient of several awards, including the Euskadi de Plata 2006 for the best novel in the Spanish language, the Qué Leer for the best book in Spanish of the year 2006, the José Manuel Lara Foundation award for the best-selling novel in 2006, the prestigious Italian Giovanni Boccaccio award in 2007 for best foreign author, the international Città dello Stretto award in 2008 and the Fulbert de Chartres in 2009. In 2018 it became a successful television series broadcast on Antena 3 and TV3, and is currently also available on Netflix. The work was also adapted to the comic format in a splendid graphic novel published by Random Comics and illustrated by Tomeu Pinya.
His second novel, Fatima’s hand (Grijalbo, 2009), was awarded the 2010 Rome Prize and The barefoot queen (Grijalbo, 2013), his next work, received the Pencho Cros award. The heirs of the land (Grijalbo, 2016) was the long-awaited continuation of The Cathedral of the Sea and has also become a series recently released on Netflix. In The painter of souls (Grijalbo, 2019), the author portrayed the dawn of the 20th century when architectural Modernism changed the face of Barcelona. All of them have received numerous critical acclaim and unconditional support from readers.
With more than eleven million copies of his work sold around the world, now Ildefonso Falcones once again addresses a topic of great social and human importance, slavery in the Spanish colonies and, at the same time, he portrays its final consequences in the current era. Slave of freedom represents a firm defense of cultural diversity, historical justice and freedom.
Source: https://algunoslibrosbuenos.com/esclava-de-la-libertad
