The Thousand Names of Liberty

Cádiz, 1815. Three lives marked by the consequences of the War of Independence and the birth of the liberal state.

A tumultuous historical moment. A woman determined to save her family.

What is the true name of freedom?

The De Villalta family, wealthy bourgeois from Santa Cruz de Tenerife, receives a worrying and mysterious letter in the middle of the night. It has to do with the sad events that have ravaged the family in recent times. Inés, the middle daughter, will undertake a journey to the peninsula with the sole intention of saving her family.

Modesto Andújar arrives in Cádiz from the Jerez de la Frontera farmhouse to study Commerce, although his vocation is politics. In his search for what remains of the Cádiz of the Cortes, cradle of the 1812 Constitution, he will come across Alonso Guzmán, a quarrelsome man who seeks to escape his past. But what once was will come to meet him, in the form of a very special commission.

After the success of Papel y tinta and Una promesa de Juventud, María Reig once again demonstrates historical rigor and extensive documentation to construct three lives marked by the consequences of the War of Independence and the birth of the liberal state.

A thrilling journey through early 19th century Spain #Madrid, Cádiz, Salamanca, Seville, Aranjuez, Asturias- at a critical moment of union and division. Palace intrigues, Masonic lodges, liberal societies, love, friendship, revenge and adventure all come together in a prodigious novel.