[PDF.49ie] 1492: The Life and Times of Juan Cabezon of Castile (Jewish Latin America Series)

1492: The Life and Times of Juan Cabezon of Castile (Jewish Latin America Series)

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 | #4095159 in Books |  University of New Mexico Press |  2003-02-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .80 x6.24 x9.36l,1.09 | File type: PDF | 294 pages

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||0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| All elliptical talk and no action make Juan a dull book.|By Eric Leventhal|I read 100 pages of 1492 when i'd had enough of the grotesque supporting characters and their ridiculous dialogue. At that point the plot had barely gotten into motion and the hero-narrator was still 2-dimensional.

All the characters talk at each other in epigrams. They perpetually vie to out|From Publishers Weekly|Ambitious re-creation of its historical period overwhelms this Mexican author's love story about two conversos --converted Sephardic Jews--who are devastated by the Spanish Inquisition. |Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.|

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.

“In 1492, the Catholic rulers, F...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.1492: The Life and Times of Juan Cabezon of Castile (Jewish Latin America Series)   |  Homero Aridjis. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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