Miguel Delibes, a luminary and living classic of Spanish literature, winner of every conceivable literary award, has long been well known in Russia (“The Road”, “Five Hours with Mario”, “The Cypress Has a Long Shadow”, etc.). The novel “The Heretic” is nominated for the Nobel Prize. “The Heretic” is a tense, dynamic historical novel. A wave of Lutheranism is sweeping across Europe, and the Catholic Church opposes it with the full might of the Inquisition. In Spain, prisons are overcrowded, fires are burning, the Holy Tribunal sits non-stop, handing more and more heretics into the hands of torture masters... In the center of the story is the fate of Cipriano Salcedo, a successful businessman who accepted Lutheranism with all his soul and paid cruelly for it. _________________________ “The Heretic” , perhaps the best of all written by Delibes. Without this book, literature of the 20th century would have lost a lot.”ABC