The Silver Hand is a fascinating historical novel. But not only. Picturesque pictures of life and customs in European and eastern courts of the 16th century, the romantic love of a girl from an aristocratic Spanish family for a castrated prince, the incredible adventures of four young friends - all this is mounted by the confident director's hand of Juliana Berlinguer. This subtle, graceful, mysterious, like an oriental arabesque, the novel is a happy combination of high fiction and exciting reading.