Sister Teresa: The Woman Who Became Spain's Most Beloved Saint - Softcover

Mujica, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 159020025X ISBN 13: 9781590200254

Publisher: The Overlook Press, 2008

Synopsis

She is Saint Teresa―known as a mystic, reformer and founder of convents, and the author of numerous texts that introduced her radical religious ideas and practices to a society suffering through the repressive throes of the Spanish Inquisition. In Barbara Mujica’s masterful tale, her story―her days of youthful romance, her sensual fits of spiritual rapture, secret heritage as a Jewish convert to Catholicism, cloak-and-dagger political dealings, struggles against sexual blackmail, and mysterious illness―unfolds with a tumultuous urgency. Blending fact with fiction in vivid detail, painstakingly researched and beautifully rendered, Mujica’s tale conjures a brilliant picture of sisterhood, faith, the terror of religious persecution, the miracle of salvation, and to one woman’s challenge to the power of strict orthodoxy, a challenge that consisted of a crime of passion―her own personal relationship with God.

About this title

About the Author:

Bárbara Mujica is a novelist, short story writer, critic, professor of Spanish at Georgetown University, and a contributor to many publications, such as The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. She is the author of the novels The Deaths of Don Bernardo, Frida, and Sister Teresa, and lives in Washington, D.C.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Overlook Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 159020025X
• ISBN 13: 9781590200254
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384