Thou Shalt Forget the Fire
by Gabriela Riveros
Description
The story of the Sephardi Jew’s exodus from Spain and Portugal —silenced across four centuries— and their struggle to survive migrations, epidemics, hurricanes, war, prejudice, torture, political intrigues, and betrayals superbly narrated by Gabriela Riveros’ expert voice. Olvidarás el Fuego is the very first novel that chronicles this poignant story, the tragedy of the Carvajal lineage and the fate of their manuscripts and memoirs, found in 2016 at an auction house in New York, after having been stolen from the National Archives.
Through vivid, flesh-and-blood characters, we will witness their heroic, underground resistance, the fight of both men and women, entire families who gave their lives for their right to freedom of thought, belief, and religion. From Europe to New Spain, from Africa to Asia, the protagonists guard an ancestral secret, all while they are besieged by a political context in which cultural diversity was not only considered a sin, but a crime against the Estate.
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Reviews
“The story is recovered through words, which name and place those who could not be erased from our memory. Through ‘El mozo’ Luis de Carvajal’s journals, Gabriela [Riveros] envelops the lives of the characters, victims of fanaticism and prejudices, in compassion. She joins Luis de Carvajal in embracing his Judaism as an absolute certainty and the meaning of his life.”
Victoria Dana de Jerade
“Olvidarás el fuego is the first novel ever written about the character of Joseph Lumbroso. Riveros weaves together different stories and presents us with a polyphony of voices that allows us to vividly experience the tragedy of the Carvajal family by challenging the reader, who must assemble the puzzle.”
Vicente Gutierrez / Milenio
Author Biography
Gabriela Riveros has a degree in Spanish Literature from the Tecnológico de Monterrey and a Master’s Degree in Humanities from the Universidad de Monterrey. She has won more than a dozen national and international awards and has been published in anthologies and literary magazines in Spain, Argentina, Colombia, Germany, and the United States.
Her book of stories Ciudad mía (1998) won the International Prize from the Universidad Externado de Colombia, and the story “Ven por chile y sal”, the Literary Prize of the Deutsche Welle of Germany 1995. She ventured into children literature with El encargo de Fernanda, Mi hermano Paco, Don Florencio de Polvorín and El secreto de los asteriscos. She is currently a Creative Writing professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey. In 2019 she published the novel Destierros (Lumen) and the poetry collection En la orilla de las cosas (Vaso Roto Publishing). Her most recent work is the novel titled Olvidarás el fuego (Lumen, 2022).
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- Publisher/Imprint Penguin Random House / Lumen
- Orginal LanguageSpanish
- ISBN/Identifier 9786073180047 / 6073811217
- Publication Country or regionMexico
- FormatPaperback
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleOlvidaras el fuego
- Original Language AuthorsSpanish
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