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El Iluminado: A Mystery of Santa Fe

By (author) Ilan Stavans, By (author) Steve Sheinkin

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In this entertaining, thought-provoking detective graphic novel set in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a fictional Ilan Stavans seeks to solve a murder and locate a lost manuscript by a prominent 16th-century Crypto-Jew burned at the stake by the Spanish Inquisition. When young Rolando Perez falls to his death from a cliff outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, the mysteries immediately begin to accumulate. Was he pushed or did he jump? What might Rolando have been so desperate to protect that he would sacrifice himself? And what does a colorful concha pastry have to do with any of this? In the midst of the investigation, Professor Ilan Stavans arrives in Santa Fe to give a lecture about the areaâ€™s long-buried Jewish history. Heâ€™s looking forward to relaxing afterward with an evening at the opera, but his presentation on â€œcrypto-Jewsâ€ attracts unexpected attention, and soon Ilan is drawn into a desperate race to find the long-lost documents that might hold the key to Rolandoâ€™s death. His amateur sleuthing leads him to taco joints, desert ranches, soaring cathedrals, and, finally, deep into the regionâ€™s past, where he encounters Luis de Carvajal, also called â€œEl Iluminado.â€ In a sixteenth-century tale of martyrdom that eerily echoes Rolandoâ€™s, Carvajal fled Spain for colonial Mexico at the height of the Spanish Inquisition, searching for his religious heritageâ€”a hunt for which he, like Rolando, would pay the ultimate price. In El Iluminado, esteemed literary critic Ilan Stavans and author and illustrator Steve Sheinkin present a secret history of religion in the Americas, showing how thousands of European refugees have left a trail of ghostly footprintsâ€”and troves of mysteriesâ€”across the American Southwest. This paperback edition includes a new afterword recounting the amazing events that occurred after the original publication, including the real-life discovery of the long-lost memoir of Luis de Carvajal and its restoration to Mexico.

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