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Christian Dittus |
SIDI
Un relato de frontera
He had no country or king, just a handful of loyal men.
They weren't hungry for glory, just hungry.
That's how a myth is born.
That's how a legend is told.
«The art of leading was about dealing with human nature, and he had dedicated his life to learning it. He slung his sword over his saddle horn, patted the animal's warm neck and looked around him: metallic clinking, the huffing and panting of mounts, conversations in low voices. These men smelled of horse manure, leather, weapon grease, sweat and wood smoke. Crude in manners, extraordinarily complex in instincts and intuition, they were warriors and never pretended to be anything else. Resigned confronting chance, fatalists about life and death, they obeyed naturally without their imagination playing tricks on them. Faces hardened by wind, cold and sun, wrinkles around the eyes of even the youngest, hands calloused from gripping weapons and fighting. Horsemen who made the sign of the cross before entering combat and sold their life or death to earn their daily bread. Professionals on the borderline, they knew how to fight cruelly and die simply. They weren't bad men, he concluded. Nor alien to compassion. Just hard people in a hard world.»
SIDI is a story of borders and exile, of the fight to survive in a land that is hostile, uncertain and marked by opposing forces. The novel tells the adventure of a warrior, forced into exile, who rides off with an army that respects him and follows him in the search to build a new life. His character and feats in battle will make him an authentic living legend.
The author brings the tumultuous 11th century to life on the page with a larger than life hero, Sidi also known as "El Cid, campeador," a charismatic military leader and Castilian nobleman forced to navigate the two powerful worlds, the Castilian and the Arabic, at war with each other. His heroic life was immortalized in the famous Spanish epic poem el Cantar del Mio Cid.
They weren't hungry for glory, just hungry.
That's how a myth is born.
That's how a legend is told.
«The art of leading was about dealing with human nature, and he had dedicated his life to learning it. He slung his sword over his saddle horn, patted the animal's warm neck and looked around him: metallic clinking, the huffing and panting of mounts, conversations in low voices. These men smelled of horse manure, leather, weapon grease, sweat and wood smoke. Crude in manners, extraordinarily complex in instincts and intuition, they were warriors and never pretended to be anything else. Resigned confronting chance, fatalists about life and death, they obeyed naturally without their imagination playing tricks on them. Faces hardened by wind, cold and sun, wrinkles around the eyes of even the youngest, hands calloused from gripping weapons and fighting. Horsemen who made the sign of the cross before entering combat and sold their life or death to earn their daily bread. Professionals on the borderline, they knew how to fight cruelly and die simply. They weren't bad men, he concluded. Nor alien to compassion. Just hard people in a hard world.»
SIDI is a story of borders and exile, of the fight to survive in a land that is hostile, uncertain and marked by opposing forces. The novel tells the adventure of a warrior, forced into exile, who rides off with an army that respects him and follows him in the search to build a new life. His character and feats in battle will make him an authentic living legend.
The author brings the tumultuous 11th century to life on the page with a larger than life hero, Sidi also known as "El Cid, campeador," a charismatic military leader and Castilian nobleman forced to navigate the two powerful worlds, the Castilian and the Arabic, at war with each other. His heroic life was immortalized in the famous Spanish epic poem el Cantar del Mio Cid.
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