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Fray Juan de la Cruz (John of the Cross) renowned poet, mystic and, with his friend Teresa of Ávila, co-founder of the Discalced Carmelite Order – has been dead for twenty-five years.
Fray Martín de Sepúlveda, Dominican friar and former professor at the University of Salamanca, receives a secret commission: to investigate the life and work of the long dead Fray Juan. As Fray Martín grapples with his investigation and the attentions of the Inquisition, he becomes embroiled in a quest to separate fact from fiction, reality from propaganda. Canticle is a historical detective story that delves into a 400-year old tale of power struggles, political manoeuvring and misinformation.
“A formidable feat of imagination underpins this marvellous detective novel set in late 16th/early 17th century Spain…
Canticle is a tale for our time, rife with institutionalised power struggles, truth and misinformation, manipulated in the
interests of the elite – same as it always was and is.”
Anthony Glavin, The Independent