Terra Incognita - Paperback

by Libi Astaire (Author)

What happens when a village in Catalonia wakes up one morning and discovers they are all descended from Jews - Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity during the dark days of the Spanish Inquisition?

Do they embrace the news? Deny it? Try to pretend they didn't hear?

Welcome to the world of Terra Incognita, where one young man's dream to save his village from oblivion unexpectedly thrusts him on a voyage of discovery that he is totally unprepared to navigate.

Terra Incognita is a bittersweet journey of self-discovery which will resonate with anyone who has ever gone on a quest to discover their past, or who has ever lain awake at night wondering where they - and the world - are going.

Author Biography

Libi Astaire is an award-winning author who often writes about Jewish history. In addition to her popular Jewish Regency Mystery Series, she is the author of "The Banished Heart," a novel about Shakespeare's writing of "The Merchant of Venice"; "Terra Incognita," a novel about Spanish villagers who discover they are descended from crypto-Jews (Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity during the Middle Ages); several ebooks of retellings of Chassidic tales; and "Day Trips to Jewish History," a collection of essays about lesser known people and places in Jewish history. Her own journey has taken her from Kansas, where she grew up, to Jerusalem, where she now lives.