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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Marcos Aguinis

b. 1935

Argentine-born Marcos Aguinis, who trained as a neurosurgeon and psychoanalyst, is best known as an author, lecturer, and cultural intellectual. His novels, short stories, nonfiction titles, and essays encompass themes of oppression, identity, and the Jewish community. He spent time in Spain, and in 1983 was appointed Secretary of Culture for Argentina.

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