Tierra vieja

The stories of kings, nobles, battles and great warriors have been told, but those who repopulated the barren land were men and women who, with one hand on the stowage of the plow and the other on a spear, they risked their lives to repopulate the lost lands. So, when a dangerous troop lurked -and with it death- they drew the borders that we inherit today. In this novel, Antonio Pérez Henares transports us, thanks to an evocative prose and an exhaustive historical rigor at a gallop between the 12th and 13th centuries, to the borders of the Castilian Extremadura through the mountains, the alcarrias, the Tagus and the Guadiana. Through his characters -Christians and Muslims, peasants and shepherds, lords and knights- he shows us the history of those who sowed and reaped, of those who built hermitages and made passions, friendships, grudges, towns and experiences sprout. Those who gave humanity to the earth and became the seed of our nation.