Against the Inquisition
Written by Marcos Aguinis
Narrated by Timothy Andrés Pabon
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“[A] stirring song of freedom.” —Nobel Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa
From a renowned prize-winning Argentinian author comes a historical novel based on the true story of one man’s faith, spirit, and resistance during the Spanish Inquisition in Latin America.
Born in sixteenth-century Argentina, Francisco Maldonado da Silva is nine years old when he sees his father, Don Diego, arrested one harrowing afternoon because of his beliefs. Raised in a family practicing its Jewish faith in secret under the condemning eyes of the Spanish Inquisition, Francisco embarks on a personal quest that will challenge, enlighten, and forever change him.
He completes his education in a monastery; he reads the Bible; he dreams of reparation; he dedicates his life to science, developing a humanistic approach and becoming one of the first accredited medical doctors in Latin America; and most of all, he longs to reconnect with his father in Lima, Perú, the City of Kings.
So begins Francisco’s epic journey to fight for his true faith, to embrace his past, and to draw from his father’s indomitable strength in the face of unimaginable persecution. But the arm of the Holy Inquisition is an intractable one. As it reaches for Francisco, he sheds his mask to defend his freedom. Against seemingly insurmountable odds, he will prove that while the body can be broken, the spirit fights back, endures, and survives.
Marcos Aguinis
Marcos Aguinis is the prize-winning, internationally bestselling author of more than thirty works of fiction and nonfiction. Born in Argentina in 1935, Aguinis has published thirteen novels, fifteen essay collections, four short-story collections, and two biographies. Aguinis was the first non-Spanish author to win the Planeta Prize for his book The Inverted Cross, and his novel Against the Inquisition was praised by Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa as a “stirring song of freedom.” When democracy was reinstated in Argentina in 1983, Aguinis became secretary of culture and sponsored the renowned cultural renaissance. For more information about the author and his works, visit www.aguinis.net.
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