Title: 1492
First published: 1985
Description: A best seller in Latin America in the 1980s, this novel of life in fifteenth-century Spain depicts a world in which both the Moors and the Jews are under attack. This is the formative period of the phenomenon known today as Crypto-Judaism, and Aridjis_s widely praised book, now available for the first time in an American paperback edition, will find a broad audience among readers fascinated by this aspect of Jewish history.
Subjects: Fiction, Inquisición, Inquisition, Jews, Judíos España, Marranos, Novela, Authors, spanish, Spain, biography, Crypto-Jews, Fiction, general
Places: España, Spain