Blind Vision

In modern day Mexico City, a young graduate student of anthropology, Stefan Marquez Calle, hears a surprising confession from his dying aunt. Her revelation sends him on a journey of discovery that flings him backwards in time to fifteenth century Spain. He finds his own life entangled with that of Alfonso Calle, an ancestor immersed in a quest for religious survival within the intrigue of an underground world. Stefan is drawn into the terrifying realm of the Spanish Inquisition, of brutal torture and burning at the stake of living human beings. In ancient palaces, where King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella rule, black hooded Dominican monks plot murderous schemes in an effort to destroy all vestiges of beleaguered Judaism. Within the same corridors of power, Christopher Columbus, an ambitious explorer, makes harried appeals to the monarchs for help to launch his voyage. How the lives of Stefan and Alfonso, the two central protagonists, are intertwined and the outcome that even today affects many thousands of people, is the essence of this gripping story.

Author: Vivian Jeanette Kaplan
Publisher: Hannover House
Published: 12/20/2013
Pages: 440
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.29lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.89d
ISBN: 9780983731825

About the Author
Vivian Jeanette Kaplan is the author of the book, TEN GREEN BOTTLES, the story of her family's flight from the Nazis in Vienna to Shanghai, where she was born. It has been translated into several languages, won major international awards and has been performed as a play. At the age of two, Vivian's parents left China for Canada, where she still resides. A graduate of the University of Toronto, she majored in English, Spanish and French. Vivian is married and has three sons and four grandchildren. BLIND VISION, the epic struggle of secret Christian Jews, is her second book.

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