French Xavier is the youngest son of a noble family with nobility in Navarre in the early decades of the sixteenth century. After the invasion the kingdom by the Castilian, his older brothers fighting for the pretender to the throne of Navarre, as the estate of Xavier fell inexorably.
With the few resources that still maintains the family, sends the young French to study in Paris where he will contact students from various countries and new ideas .
is my second book Adalid Sanchez and I can only describe this novel as a minor work and rather disappointing for me, does not reach anywhere near the level of "Moorish" (which I liked).
"In the Company of the sun" is intended to be a fictionalized version of life (or a fraction thereof) of San Francisco Javier. However, during the first part of the novel progresses only on the vicissitudes through which it passes the estate of Xavier and Francisco youth in Paris, where nothing we glimpse of the future sanctity of character.
After the first half of the book, so abruptly, many years passed and Francis spends a fun-loving young and mature a Jesuit ascetic without giving more explanation than a few pages in which the character narrates in first person how to produce his unexpected conversion.
It seems that finally we will see San Francisco Javier in all its fullness, but little deeper into the character until the end of the book. Once finished, the holy remains almost unknown to me. With this reading I know now a series of data on this special mission, but the work has given me much either as novel or as a historical biography.
However, Sanchez Adalid handles well the historical setting and a correct style is advanced in the pages without the novel gets bored.
My rating: interesting.
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