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Cathedral of the Sea Debut Alan Hollinghurst's new novel isA masterful epic of love, war, treason, plague, famine, witchcraft, anti Semitism and the Inquisition 14th century Spain, the medieval city of Barcelona is enjoying a golden age of prosperity. Its humblest inhabitants are building, stone by stone, a magnificent church to overlook their harbour. This is the Cathedral of the Sea: a church to be built for the people by the people. In its shadow, Arnau, a young serf on the run from his feudal lord,