LA CATEDRAL DEL MAR
I recommend the
book “La Catedral del Mar”, the Cathedral of the Sea. It is a book written by
Idelfonso Falcones de Sierra, a Catalan lawyer and writer. This book was
written in 2006, and it became the most read book in 2007 in all Spain.
The book is
about a father and a son that arrive in Barcelona fleeing from danger. The
father, Bernat Estanyol, a simply servant, doesn’t know if his wife is dead or
alive, so he says to his son, Arnau Estanyol, that his mother is “Santa Maria
del Mar”, the Virgin of the Sea, that is the virgin of the cathedral that they
are building. The people of Barcelona build the cathedral by and for the people
of Barcelona. In fact, “Santa Maria del Mar” is not a cathedral, it is a
basilica, but everybody knows it as “La Catedral del Mar”.
I like this book
because I liked the feelings that Arnau Estanyol had to his “mother”, Santa
Maria del Mar, and how people protected her and looked after she, and he worked
very hard to finish the temple because it was his mother’s house and it is
always is house too.
ERIK
ESTEBAN 3RD ESO A
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