![]() ![]() ![]() Bent on revenge, Berekiah sets off in search of the killer, a man he is certain is a treacherous kabalist friend of his uncle. ![]() Against this menacing backdrop, Berekiah Zarco, a follower of the mystic kabalist tradition, goes about his life in Lisbon's Jewish quarter, the Alfama.īut the course of his life changes all at once on a horrible spring night in 1506 when rioting breaks out and Berekiah returns home to discover his beloved uncle dead on the floor of the family's secret book cellar, next to the nakedĬorpse of a young woman. The forces of religion and converts are burned at the stake, murdered or tortured. But when political winds blow foul, the King sometimes loses control over Portugal's King Manuel sporadically tries to convert them by force, though these so-called New Christians usually continue to practice their beliefs in secret. Ixteenth-century Lisbon is a dangerous place, especially for Jews, who are living a half-hidden life on the run from the Spanish Inquisition. ![]()
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