by Carmen Riera · Editorial Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420482170
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«En el último azul» is the historical novel by Carme Riera, published in 1996 by Alfaguara in paperback (389 pages, in Spanish).
Mallorca, 1687. A community of converso Jews plans to escape to free themselves from the harassment of the Inquisition, but the denunciation of a malsín, revealing their feigned faith, unleashes persecution. The novel reconstructs the life and death of the Mallorcan crypto-Jews of the seventeenth century, among inquisitors, aristocrats, merchants, peasants, and bandits.
National Narrative Prize in 1995; translation by the author of the original in Catalan «Dins el darrer blau».
For readers of historical fiction and contemporary fiction interested in seventeenth-century Spain, the Inquisition, and Sephardic culture.
Carme Riera Guilera is a novelist and essayist. She has also written short stories, scripts for radio and television and literary criticism. She holds a doctorate in Hispanic Philology and is a professor of Spanish literature at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
