1492: The Life and Times of Juan Cabezon of Castile (Jewish Latin America Series) (1991)

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.

Author: Homero Aridjis

Categories: Ethnic & National, Genre Fiction, World Literature, Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction