The Saga of the Marrano
Marcos Aguinis
1991
This is the moment Francisco has been waiting for. Day after day and week after week he has imagined the court’s questions, turned them over in his mind, and minutely rehearsed his answers. Now fear seizes him, and his mind goes blank. He knows only that the tribunal will treat him with the same spite it showed his father. His judges will ask him…
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