Catalina de Erauso lived in the 17th Century. As a four-year-old girl she was given in a convent, where she was at the age of fifteen years take vows. She did not want to, and fled from the monastery. She disguised herself as a man wandered through Spain and even came to South America.
describes almost five hundred pages Lea Korte Catalinas escape, the Disowned by their parents, life in Seville, then on the ship and finally among the soldiers and sieweiß from the first page to captivate the reader, so it is really difficult to put the book out of hand. The representation of the character of Catalina is their very successful - the reader is confronted with an energetic, courageous and proud girl. A girl who sets goals and they achieved. But a girl can love.
Except Catalina describes Korte, other historical figures. Interestingly fall but the fictional characters from - most important here is Mikael - Catalinas friend. The girl falls in love with him without him but betrayed his true identity. Again and again lose sight of the two to meet up again at unexpected moments. The friendship between Catalina and Mikael gives the Roman dynamism and although everyone will suspect that this relationship needs to find a happy ending loses, the novel does not live.
It really is amazing how long it is possible to live as Catalina Francisco and survive. It is clear that the author here has a lot of imagination can be incorporated. In my opinion, it has something to sparsely considered the practical side of life as a man. Only now and then she goes to the problem of washing or the use of toilet but here I would have liked to see more reality.
I was thrilled with the hitorischen background of the novel. Korte added to the novel into a true treasure of information Life in Spain of the 17th Century made. Although I have had some prior knowledge on, I learned a lot about the Inquisition and its "functioning" as well as the colonization of South America.
Although visible in the novel some weak points (as already mentioned by me repeating random encounters of the main protagonists), I like the insane and usually read late into the night.
My Rating: 5 / 6
Lea Korte, The nun with the sword, 478 pages, Knaur
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