Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

PART ONE - Chained to the Land

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

PART TWO - Chained to the Nobility

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 10

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

PART THREE - Chained to Passion

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Chapter 42

Chapter 43

Chapter 44

Chapter 45

PART FOUR - Chained to Destiny

Chapter 46

Chapter 47

Chapter 48

Chapter 49

Chapter 50

Chapter 51

Chapter 52

Chapter 53

Chapter 54

Chapter 55

Chapter 56

Chapter 57

Chapter 58

Chapter 59

Chapter 60

Author’s Note

More Praise for the #1 International Bestseller

CATHEDRAL OF THE SEA

"The passion and heartache, as well as the grit and grime, of medieval Spain come alive in ... this epic novel .... The saga is filled with colorful characters .... The backdrop is always dramatic ... a fantastic fourteenth-century fresco.”

—USA Today

“[It’s] soap opera on a grand scale, made believable and enthralling by the inclusion of the commonplace brutalities and small compassions of life in medieval Barcelona. Watching Arnau’s rise from literal rags to riches is frequently like watching a series of train wrecks; you’re horrified but can’t look away ....[The] plot ... is so beautifully structured that the last sixty pages detonate like a string of firecrackers ....[The] prose is powerful .... Falcones has an eye for the singular, telling detail, and ... his characters are ... believable ... a riveting story.”

—The Washington Post

“[An] absorbing epic ... Falcones’s rich portrait of medieval society is fascinating.”

—Publishers Weekly

“[A] sprawling medieval family saga.”

—Kirkus Reviews

“With Cathedral of the Sea, Ildefonso Falcones dethrones Eduardo Mendoza and Arturo Pérez-Reverte ... and has become Spain’s new Dan Brown.”

—El Mundo

“A new Ken Follett is born!”

—ADP (Spain)

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Copyright © Ildefonso Falcones de Sierra, 2006

Translation copyright © Nick Caistor, 2008

Images on page 1, 2, 51, 52, 217, 218, 453, 454 courtesy of Liesbeth Vries

Map © Sergi Parreño

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eISBN : 978-1-440-63041-5

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Cathedral of the sea/by Ildefonso Falcones.

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