By Fire, by Water

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Luis de Sant ngel, chancellor to the court and longtime friend of the lusty King Ferdinand, has had enough of the Spanish Inquisition As the power of Inquisitor General Tom s de Torquemada grows, so does the brutality of the Spanish church and the suspicion and paranoia it inspires When a dear friend s demise brings the violence close to home, Sant ngel is enraged and takes retribution into his own hands But he is from a family of conversos, and his Jewish heritage makes him an easy target As Sant ngel witnesses the horrific persecution of his loved ones, he begins slowly to reconnect with the Jewish faith his family left behind Feeding his curiosity about his past is his growing love for Judith Migdal, a clever and beautiful Jewish woman navigating the mounting tensions in Granada While he struggles to decide what his reputation is worth and what he can sacrifice, one man offers him a chance he thought he d lost the chance to hope for a better world Christopher Columbus has plans to discover a route to paradise, and only Luis de Sant ngel can help him.Within the dramatic story lies a subtle, insightful examination of the crisis of faith at the heart of the Spanish Inquisition Irresolvable conflict rages within the conversos in By Fire, By Water, torn between the religion they left behind and the conversion meant to ensure their safety In this story of love, God, faith, and torture, fifteenth century Spain comes to dazzling, engrossing life. Best Download By Fire, by Water by Mitchell James Kaplan For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr My thoughts Wow.that s what I thinkWOW Never in a million years would I say that historical fiction about the New Inquisition during the Medieval times would be intriguing, but I have to say that Kaplan wrote a book that had me turning the pages late into the night and wanting to get up at the crack of dawn to start reading again The author s writing is so vivid and intense that I felt as if I was walking along side the characters I loved every aspect of this story, but most o...This book was amazing so it gets five stars The writing style was both informative and magnificently vivid The reader sees Spain at the end of the 1400s during the Spanish Inquisition You see it, you feel it and you smell it The colors, the smells, the textures, the grit the sounds, both the beauty and the wretchedness they are all there The horrors of the Inquisition are made so real that it becomes very hard to even read That IS how it was I don t want a fairy tale picture of i This book was amazing so it gets five stars The writing style was both informative and magnificently vivid The reader sees Spain at the end of the 1400s during the Spanish Inquisition You see it, you feel it and you smell it The colors, the smells, the textures, the grit the sounds, both the beauty and the wretchedness they are all there The horrors of the Inquisition are made so real that it becomes very hard to even read That IS how it was I don t want a fairy tale picture of it The facts of history were well incorporated into the story line The connection between Christopher Columbus voyage and the Inquisition, that both were a result o...From My Blog return return An in depth historical journey into the Spanish Inquisitions occurring throughout 15th century Spain under the rule of King Fernando and Queen Ysabel, Mitchell James Kaplan takes his readers to two very different sections of Spain the predominately Christian section of Zaragoza and the Jewish settlement within Muslim Granada where Kaplan details the lives of the families and the effects the New Inquisition has upon them in Kaplan s stunning debut novel By Fire, By From My Blog return return An in depth historical journey into the Spanish Inquisitions occurring throughout 15th century Spain under the rule of King Fernando and Queen Ysabel, Mitchell James Kaplan takes his readers to two very different section...He had fought his entire life for acceptance and dignity in a society where neither was his birthright To abandon that struggle, to walk away from his achievements, would be to hand a victory to those who wished to deny his humanity Luis de Sant ngel is chancellor to King Ferdinand, but he is also a Conversos of Jewish heritage but converted to Christianity and with the Spanish inquisition in full force that s not always the safest thing to be Luis decides to explore his Jewish heritage He had fought his entire life for acceptance and dignity ...This novel is a fascinating account of the Spanish Inquisition and is told through the experiences of Muslims, Jews, Christians, voluntary and involuntary converts, as well as historical figures Isabel, Ferdinand, Columbus, Torquemada and the main character, Sant ngel, among others I wanted a break from Tudor period f...Set in Spain during the 15th Century, BY FIRE, BY WATER is a gorgeously executed book that exemplifies historical fiction at its finest Written with intelligence and beautifully rendered prose, the story is as vivid and complex as a medieval tapestry Mitchell Kaplan has seamlessly brought together themes of love, theology, politics, brutality and the deepest longings and treacheries of highly complex characters He does this while rema...This review first appeared on my blog Knitting and SundriesI m a huge fan of historical fiction I love reading about other cultures, other times, and learningabout periods that I may only have a fleeting knowledge of.This book is a gem meticulously researched, but written in such a fashion that you are drawn in almost from the first.Conversos were Jewish people who converted to Christianity however, they were all looked at with suspicion by those aligned with the Spanish Inquisition It This review first appeared on my blog Knitting and SundriesI m a huge fan of historical fiction I love reading about other cultures, other times, and learningabout periods that I may only have a fleeting knowledge of.This book is a gem meticulously researched, but written in...By Fire, By Water contains all the elements of the best historical fiction It s well written, well researched, butimportantly, it has an engaging plot and memorable characters And I left the novel understandingabout the place, the history, and its human drama tha...In 1492, three events would change Iberia and change the world Isabella and Ferdinand s reconquest of Muslim Granada, the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, and Columbus s discovery of the New World In his debut novel, By Fire, By Water, Mitchell James Kaplan shows how these events can all be traced back to Luis de Sant ngel, a third generation Christian who served as chancellor to the crown In the novel, Sant ngel is a likeable character whose curiosity about the Judaism of his grandparents g In 1492, three events would change Iberia and change the world Isabella and Ferdinand s reconquest of Muslim Granada, the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, and Columbus s discovery of the New World In his debut novel, By Fire, By Water, Mitchell James Kaplan shows how these events can all be traced back to Luis de Sant ngel, a third generation Christian who served as chancellor to the crown In the novel, Sant ngel is a likeable character whose curiosity about the Judaism of his grandparents gets him into trouble with the Inquisition In trying to cover his tracks, Sant ngel participates in a crime that will have ramifications for everyone he loves including his young son and the Jewess silversmith he has come to love Weaving together several subplots into a rich story with a surprising ending, Kaplan draws his readers into the Jewish quarter of Granada, the dungeons of the Inquisition and the halls of royal palaces...This was a phenomenal and well written novel that I will continue to cherish I am so glad I was one of the winners of Amy s contest and experienced this book.By Fire, By Water is a story of humanity, connectedness, love, betrayal, heartbreak, faith, and hope It is a story of the New Inquisition, the reconquest of Granada by Spain, the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, the discoveries of Crist bal Col n, and the people whom all of these events affect.I...

By Fire, by Water
  • English
  • 26 May 2017
  • Paperback
  • 284 pages
  • 1590513525
  • Mitchell James Kaplan
  • By Fire, by Water