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The Providential Origins of Maximiliano Rubin is a story of quiet grief, loud ambition and pragmatic compromise, whose ending is likely to surprise!Inspired by real events, this literary historical fiction novel explores the clash of art, science and religion in 1886 Madrid and comes from one of our best new historical fiction storytellers. Abandoned by his lover, savaged by the critics and hounded by the taxman, Spain's foremost realist writer Benito Galdos perches perilously on the window ledge of his third-floor apartment. Half a mile away, renowned alienist Luis Simarro prepares his attempt to replicate a ground-breaking experimental laboratory technique. In another corner of the city, Father Cayetano, an insane assassin priest, prepares for a showdown with the bishop. In a society scarred by three civil wars in fifty years, and where children are born bearing grudges, any distraction which prolongs the fragile peace is welcome. As the country looks on, the trio of Benito, Luis and Cayetano are ineluctably drawn together to contest the source of madness and the existence of free-will. As their lives and ambitions collide, Benito and Luis come to learn that Cayetano is both more and less than he seems.
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Known for "engrossing" fiction with "deftly portrayed characters,"* (KIRKUS) the author spins an intriguing story and readers may find their worldview turned inside out. The drama turns on the travails of three couples who meet in pre-war London and friendships are forged. But when war arrives, everyone is imprisoned in some fashion: Edgar is requisitioned along with his ship. He and Lily struggle to reconcile their pacifism with their role in their Government's treatment of foreign residents and refugees; Fortunato & Florence are caught between a love of Italy and visceral incompatibility with its fascist State and a life-changing decision has to be made; Günther (now captain of a U-boat) and Ingeborg must consider if their silence has become complicity in the Nazi regime's objectives. Who is really "free" to decide their destiny? Can any friendship last when war calls?