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9786073107907 | Random House Espanol, October 23, 2012, cover price $18.00
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 Aridjisâs 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. âIn 1492, the Catholic rulers, Ferdinand and Isabella, expelled the Jews from Spain. In Homero Aridjisâ novel, the great saga of the expulsion comes to life with both historical and poetic resonance. A great Mexican poet, Aridjis embraces history and fiction with the warmth and insight of the lyrical vision.ââCarlos Fuentes âIn this highly readable novel which deals with a special and painful chapter in history, Homero Aridjis combines erudition, sensitivity and poetic imagination. I recommend it warmly.ââElie Wiesel âA novel of literary subtlety and sensibility. Few contemporary writers have captured so profoundly and with such style this era marked by three essential events: the establishment of the Catholic sovereigns, the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, and the discovery of America.ââEl PaÃs (Madrid) âAmong worldwide bestsellers, 1492 is the most similar to Umberto Ecoâs The Name of the Rose; both are concerned with the trials of heretics and the violence employed against the dissident. Aridjis gives an encyclopedic vision of catastrophic times.ââLa Jornada (Mexico City)
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9780826330963 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, January 1, 2003, cover price $19.95
9780452269149 | Reprint edition (Plume, October 1, 1992), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: 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.
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9780811215091 | Bilingual edition (New Directions, April 1, 2002), cover price $19.95
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9780671644994 | Summit Books, June 1, 1991, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: 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
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