30.00 NIS
SKU: 9781592861866-01
Availability: 1
Michael TG Yepes
Child of Europe is a novel about the Jesuit Enterprise, which laid the ground for modern California. In the center of the story is the figure of Carlos Galante, S.J. surrounded by Central European Jesuits who were the key missionaries in Baja California towards the end of the 18th century. The novel follows Charles GalAntay (in Spanish known as Carlos Galante) from childhood through his adult years. We first encounter 12-year-old Charlie as heas about to leave home for school, and at the end we meet him again when he returns to Hungary as a former member of the now suppressed society. By then, heas a discarded exile from Italy and the Papal Domains. In between, we see Charles/Carlos as a theology student in MA(c)xico, an explorer and missionary in California, and a after the expulsion a meet him as an agent of the General of the Jesuit Order. Finally, we witness as Charles, now a prisoner, shares in the fate of the Companyas elite corps. GalAntayas letters, the aIntroductionsa and the various Interludes, plus the Prologue and Epilogue, are all part of the novel. In the Society of JA(c)sus Enlightenment Europe sent some of its abest and brightesta to California a and they were defeated. But did they really fail?
Tags:
All Products,
Contemporary,
Fiction,
Historical Fiction
