· At its core, Gateway to the Moon is a story about spiritual memories, connectedness and the basic human desire to understand where we come from. Morris poignantly captures this in the novel’s epitaph when she quotes the French novelist André Malraux: “The great mystery is not that we have been flung at random among the profusion of the earth and the galaxy of the stars, but that in this prison we Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. "I have been spoiled by Mary Morris’s writing--her rich storytelling woven with poetry--for years, but this latest novel brings me to a whole new level of awe. Gateway to the Moon is a story about exploration--between the past and the present, between faith and truth, between the heavens and the earth. If you haven’t read Mary Morris yet, start here. Now. Immediately."/5(44). There is nothing ‘just plain’ about either Mary Morris or Gateway to the Moon. It’s one of those parallel story plots, half taking place in the late s and involving travels of the religiously persecuted to the New World, the other half in the late s in a small town in New Mexico where, many generations later, descendants of those immigrants are firmly www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 2 mins.
It is there that award-winning author Mary Morris's gripping new novel, Gateway to the Moon, begins in with the story of the fictional de Torres's descendant, Miguel Torres, an amateur astronomer and juvenile delinquent (the real Luis de Torre died in Cuba). Engrossing, richly textured, and spanning centuries with deftness and ease, Gateway to the Moon is Mary Morris's most ambitious and best novel yet. It's thrilling to watch as such a well-established novelist sets forth like an explorer into new territory and makes it all her own. Find items like Gateway To The Moon at Daedalus Books. In , Columbus sailed for the New World, and Spain expelled their Jews and Muslims. But Luis de Torres kept his Jewish traditions secret, and went with Columbus as an interpreter; his descendants eventually settled in the hills of New Mexico. Five centuries later, young Miguel Torres looks to the stars, yet can't comprehend the mystery.
“Engrossing, richly textured, and spanning centuries with deftness and ease, Gateway to the Moon is Mary Morris’s most ambitious and best novel yet.” —Dani Shapiro, author of Hourglass “It’s a great joy when a novel so rich in history is also a total page-turner. GATEWAY TO THE MOON. by Mary Morris ‧ RELEASE DATE: Ap. A terrible history of suffering and oppression, traced from the Spanish Inquisition to modern-day New Mexico, is exposed through the generations of a single family. Crypto-Jews, or conversos, hid their faith from the Catholic authorities in an attempt to avoid expulsion, torture, or burning at the stake during the Inquisition that began in Spain in and later spread to Portugal and Mexico. Mary Morris’ latest novel, Gateway to the Moon, combines a coming of age story with historical fiction to explore ideas of identity and how history echoes across time. The remote New Mexico community of Entrada de la Luna is rooted in the history of the Spanish inquisition and converesos, or crypto-Jews, who fled from persecution.
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