Katarina, pav in jezuit

In the middle of the 18th century, Katarina Poljanec, the thirty-year-old daughter of a steward in Carniola, has waited too long for the imperial captain Windisch, the vain officer she calls the peacock. Against her father's wishes she sets out with a band of pilgrims bound for Cologne and its golden shrine. On the long road through Austrian and German lands, a former Jesuit novice, Simon, joins the group and falls in love with her. The pilgrimage turns unruly, the pair break away from the others after a flood, and they soon face a pilgrims' court for their relationship. When Windisch reappears with his soldiers, the three are bound together in a triangle of desire, jealousy and guilt against the background of the Seven Years' War.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

472 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovenia, Austria, Germany, 1756–1773

First published

2000 by Slovenska matica

Author's age

52 when first published

ISBN

9789612130763 (original)

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