The Return of Carvajal - A Mystery

Recounts events surrounding the recovery, in 2017, of a sixteenth-century biographical manuscript by Luis de Carvajal the Younger, a crypto-Jew executed by the Inquisition in colonial Mexico.

About the author

Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, publisher of Restless Books, host of NPR's podcast In Contrast, and a columnist for the New York Times en Español. He is the recipient of numerous international awards and honors, and his books have been translated into twenty languages. He is the author, with Marcelo Brodsky, of Once@9:53am: Terror in Buenos Aires and, with Roberto Weil, of the graphic novel adaptation of Don Quixote of La Mancha, both published by Penn State University Press.

Summary

Recounts events surrounding the recovery, in 2017, of a sixteenth-century biographical manuscript by Luis de Carvajal the Younger, a crypto-Jew executed by the Inquisition in colonial Mexico.

Product details

• Authors: Ilan Stavans, Ilan (Amherst College) Stavans
• Assisted by: Eko (Illustration)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2019
• EAN: 9780271084701
• ISBN: 978-0-271-08470-1
• Dimensions: 102 mm x 152 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 227 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Antiques; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Mexico, Biography: historical, political & military, RELIGION / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico, ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Books, Judaism, History of the Americas, Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict, Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict, Biography: historical, political and military