In the Last Blue - Rilegato

Riera, Carme

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0715635948 ISBN 13: 9780715635940

Casa editrice: Duckworth Overlook, 2007

Riassunto

During the Spanish Inquisition on the island of Majorca, a small enclave of local Jews - all of whom have been baptized as Christians - determine to escape detention in the Inquisition by escaping to lands of freedom across the Atlantic. But weather frustrates their flight, and eventually 37 of them were captured and condemned to burn at the stake in the Auto-de-Fe. In prose at once lyrical and suspenseful, Riera recreates the lives of Majorcan Jews in the seventeenth century - in a world of inquisitors, aristocrats, merchants, farmers, and soldiers - in a lush mosaic of history and period detail, religion and cultural lore. Already acclaimed around the world, "In the Last Blue" is at once a beautiful, poetic, riveting, and devastating tale of hope and fear.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Duckworth Overlook
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0715635948
• ISBN 13: 9780715635940
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 384
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile