It's incredible!
everybody must read this book, because is the history told n a great way. With impressive historical background and poetical language.

Jews and Catholics should read in order to know what happened and the horros of the inquisition for more than 4 centuries and all around the world

This is a must read for anybody who wants to get inmersed in what the inquisition was like in South America and how Jews needed to hide in order not to get punished or killed.

I couldn't stop reading it. A triumph!

Marcos Aguinis is truly a gifted writter and this, I believe, is his masterpiece. The story centers around what could be considered the first Jewish martyr in Latin America...his life falls into the hands of the Spanish Inquisition's American tentacles and all because he fails to believe in the imposed religion's symbols (he argues -rightly so- that the venerance of the "cross" is the perpetuation of a symbol of oppression and torture), he holds onto his life through logical dissertations with his inquisitors and finally ends up burned at the stake because they did not know what else to do with him (they just could not argue any longer when held to close scrutiny of illogical beliefs)...but even more poignantly is the underlying story of man's own destruction of man, which at this time had masqueraded within the strict confines of organized and established religion...the only word that came to my mind at the end was: tolerance...we are in dire need of tolerance in our world, as it was then...so it is now...a truly awesome book! a must read!

This book is not only a description of a dark era, when the nazism was raising in Germany and spreading throughout the world, but an illustration of the human mind and its behavior toward this particular time of history. Through his characters and the relationships that attach them, the author is able to offer the reader a travel inside of their minds analysing the human being's behavior towaed history. The story is intrigating and keeps the reader interested in the characters' story, while the author puts diferent people in the middle to show the diferent kind of personalities involved behind the facts which changed the history.