Incantation
Registered by Beqi of Daventry, Northamptonshire United Kingdom on 8/9/2011
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
3 journalers for this copy...
Product Description
This is a chilling story of friendship, first love and family secrets. Estrella lives in Spain, next door to her best friend Catalina. They used to be inseparable, but then Andres, Catalina's cousin and the boy she's planning to marry, starts to gaze at Estrella instead. And Catalina starts to plot...Estrella's family have always done things slightly differently. Lighting candles on a Friday, for example. But these tiny things that Estrella has done all her life suddenly add up to something huge. She discovers that she and her family are Marranos - Spanish Jews living double lives as Catholics. And soon the outside world starts to intrude on her life - the world of the Spanish Inquisition, of neighbours accusing each other, of looting and riots. It is a world where new love burns and where friendship ends in flame and ash.
This is a chilling story of friendship, first love and family secrets. Estrella lives in Spain, next door to her best friend Catalina. They used to be inseparable, but then Andres, Catalina's cousin and the boy she's planning to marry, starts to gaze at Estrella instead. And Catalina starts to plot...Estrella's family have always done things slightly differently. Lighting candles on a Friday, for example. But these tiny things that Estrella has done all her life suddenly add up to something huge. She discovers that she and her family are Marranos - Spanish Jews living double lives as Catholics. And soon the outside world starts to intrude on her life - the world of the Spanish Inquisition, of neighbours accusing each other, of looting and riots. It is a world where new love burns and where friendship ends in flame and ash.
Journal Entry 2 by Beqi at Forest Cafe in Salcey Forest, Northamptonshire United Kingdom on Saturday, April 28, 2012
Released 11 yrs ago (4/28/2012 UTC) at Forest Cafe in Salcey Forest, Northamptonshire United Kingdom
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Taking this, among a few other books, along to the BC meet at Salcey Forest on Saturday 28th April at 2pm. if not taken by another bookcrosser it will end up on the book shelf in the café :-)
Journal Entry 3 by Korky at Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire United Kingdom on Saturday, April 28, 2012
Picked up at the meet, I've read lots of Alice Hoffman but I don't think I've read this one.
Journal Entry 4 by AnonymousFinder at Lanzarote (lugar indeterminado en la isla) , Las Palmas Spain on Sunday, November 9, 2014
Quality writing and very easy reading. Teen writing by a a top writer. Jewish persecution in 15th century Spain may not be an obvious subject but Alice Hoffman weaves a beautiful story of family and friendship.
KORKY'S DAD
KORKY'S DAD
Journal Entry 5 by AnonymousFinder at Lanzarote (lugar indeterminado en la isla) , Las Palmas Spain on Sunday, November 9, 2014
Based on the persecution of Jews in Spain during the period of the Inquisition. Written from the viewpoint of a young girl caught up in the terror. Well written.
KORKY'S MUM
KORKY'S MUM
Journal Entry 6 by Korky at Lanzarote (lugar indeterminado en la isla) , Las Palmas Spain on Sunday, November 9, 2014
Interesting, quick teen read, presumably based on true events.
Journal Entry 7 by Korky at Güime in Lanzarote - San Bartolomé, Las Palmas Spain on Sunday, November 9, 2014
Released 9 yrs ago (11/6/2014 UTC) at Güime in Lanzarote - San Bartolomé, Las Palmas Spain
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Left at La Veranda.