1492: The Life and Times of Juan Cabezon of Castile - Hardcover

Homero Aridjis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671644998 ISBN 13: 9780671644994

Publisher: Summit Books, 1991

Synopsis

Juan Cabezon, a Christianized Jew living in the fifteenth-century Spain of the Inquisition and the expulsion of the Jews, searches Spain for the condemned woman he loves, encountering the horror that has gripped his country

About this title

From the Publisher:

Now in English for the first time, this sweeping story of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain during the era of world exploration was a best-seller in Latin America in the 1980s.

About the Author:

Homero Aridjis, one of Mexico’s foremost poets and novelists, has published more than twenty books, most recently a collection with New Directions. He lives in Mexico City.

Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. Series editor of Jewish Latin America, he is also the author of The One-Handed Pianist and Other Stories, Art and Anger, (UNM Press), and many other books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Summit Books
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0671644998
• ISBN 13: 9780671644994
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 285