The Catalans
By: Patrick O'Brian.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
Subjects: Catalonia (Spain) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "When doctor Alan Roig is summoned back to his Catalan hometown, he is immediatley charged by anxious relations with preventing an impending marriage between his cold, ascetic (and wealthy) cousin Xavier and Madeleine, the village beauty recently abandoned by her self-obsessed husband. He is slowly drawn into Xavier's dark crisis of faith." -- BOOK JACKET.