{"product_id":"fire-and-song-9781741147087","title":"Fire and Song","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt is 1596 and in Mexico the Inquisition is at its most efficient. A young man trembles in his cell as he prays for salvation, torn between the Christianity he was schooled in and his ancestral faith. What heresies will the Holy Office uncover? Can he protect his mother and sisters?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe is Luis de Carvajal. His forbears had fled the Inquisition in Spain to Portugal and then from there to the New World. But the lives they try to rebuild as \u003ci\u003econversos\u003c\/i\u003e in Mexico are just as perilous, for the Inquisition is determined to root out heretics throughout its realms. Luis's quest for true faith unfolds a tense and moving narrative, as he and his family's spirit and ingenuity are tested again and again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnna Lanyon's \u003ci\u003eMalinche's Conquest\u003c\/i\u003e was awarded and widely translated, and was followed by \u003ci\u003eThe New World of Martin Cortes\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eFire and Song\u003c\/i\u003e also shows her as the historian whose chronicles from contemporary testimonies are so vivid that readers feel witness to the dramatic events and intimate moments of individual lives, woven deftly into the fabric of their times to illuminate the bigger historical picture. \u003ci\u003eFire and Song\u003c\/i\u003e presents a world without the human rights and tolerance we take for granted today; yet the insights remain all too pertinent - into the power of faith, the tangled knot of religious and political interests, and human yearning for identity, belonging and spirituality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnna Lanyon studied Spanish, Portuguese and History at La Trobe University in  Melbourne. She travelled widely before settling with her family on the southern  coast of Victoria, near Portland. She teaches and translates Spanish, and is the  author of Malinche's Conquest (A+U 2000). She works in Portland for La  Trobe University's Centre for the Study of Mothers' and Children's Health, and  continues to write whenever she can.","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53190093865303,"sku":"9781741147087","price":17.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fire-and-song-9781741147087","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}