Ricardo Gomez

Granada, 1491. La Reconquista llega a su fin. Pero en esta versión de la historia, Colón muere antes de zarpar, y los expulsados de Al-Ándalus — médicos judíos, astrónomos islámicos, navegantes andaluces — dirigen su sabiduría hacia un horizonte distinto: las Américas como refugio...

The year is 1492, and two worlds are about to collide—but not the way history remembers. As the last Muslim stronghold of Granada crumbles under Catholic siege, an extraordinary conspiracy takes shape in the city's final days.

Granada, 1491. A library is harder to move than an army. For forty years, Yusuf ibn Khalil al-Garnati has gathered the manuscripts of Al-Andalus into a single library inside the Albaicín. Medical treatises copied in Cordoba, astronomy from Samarkand, poetry from Seville, philosophical...

Toledo, 1108. King Alfonso VI is dying. Abraham Cohen is racing to finish the Testament—a philosophical foundation for everything the covenant has protected across three decades. When betrayal strikes and the brotherhood scatters across three continents, the plan requires one final audacious...

Majorca, 1455. Every chart is a confession. Siona Cresques inherits her father's workshop and the private notation system that has made his charts the most accurate in the Mediterranean. The cipher encodes more than coordinates. It carries the oral navigation traditions of Jewish, Muslim, and...

Toledo, 1086. Archbishop Bernard has arrived with a mandate to purge infidel learning. But under the unlikely patronage of suspicious churchmen, the city's famous School of Translators is taking shape—and the heirs of the original covenant are walking a razor's edge. Satisfying clerics by day...

Seville, 1415. A jar of olive oil could hang a family. In the year following the Disputation of Tortosa, which has driven thousands to the baptismal font, Ishaqstill practices medicine to patients of three faiths.

España, 1490. Gonzalo Palencia, comerciante adinerado, enfrenta la Inquisición con un secreto que no puede revelar. Su hija Mariana navega entre dos mundos—el que le heredaron y el que ella misma construye. A lo largo de un siglo, la familia lleva ese secreto de España a Colombia, de la...

Seville, present day. A gray archival box. A manuscript no one was expecting to find. When Roberto Alvarado, a Mexican-American historian of colonial Latin America, is summoned to the Archivo de Indias, he finds what appears to be an unpublished manuscript in the hand of Bartolomé de las...

In 1987, Valentina sits across from her grandmother with a camcorder on the table between them and a canvas tote of old documents at her feet. Julia Inés is eighty-four. She has never spoken about any of this before.

En enero de cierto año, el historiador colombiano Roberto Alvarado llega al Archivo General de Indias de Sevilla respondiendo a una llamada de una colega: entre papeles sin catalogar de una donación de Extremadura, hay un manuscrito encuadernado en cuero con daños de humedad, sin autor en la primera

Granada, 1599. The lead tablets of Sacromonte have been unearthed, and the Church is celebrating what it believes is proof of Christian primacy in Spain. But Nur al-Haqq Jiménez, a Morisco translator living under a borrowed name, recognizes something else in the inscriptions: the work of her...

Toledo, 1108. El rey Alfonso VI agoniza. Abraham Cohen corre contra el tiempo para terminar el Testamento—el fundamento filosófico de todo lo que el pacto ha protegido durante tres décadas.

In the summer of 1918, a federal prosecutor arrived in Petersburg, Alaska, with a government vessel, a barrel of confiscated whiskey, and the authority of the United States Department of Justice.

Toledo, 1086. El arzobispo Bernardo ha llegado con mandato de purgar el saber infiel. Pero bajo el mecenazgo improbable de clérigos suspicaces, la famosa Escuela de Traductores de Toledo toma forma — y los herederos del pacto original caminan sobre el filo de una navaja.

Toledo, 1080. Los ejércitos de Alfonso VI se acercan a la ciudad que ha cobijado durante generaciones a estudiosos musulmanes, judíos y cristianos.

Dos hermanos gemelos. Dos caminos que empiezan iguales y terminan como mundos opuestos. Carlos construye una vida convencional. Nicolás entra al M-19. Durante sesenta años de historia colombiana — la violencia política, las guerrillas, los acuerdos de paz que llegaron demasiado tarde para...

Fifteen lives. Fifteen crossings. Fifteen answers to the question: what does it cost to move? *Voices in Motion* is a collection of interconnected stories drawn from a decade of interviews with actual migrants — an Ecuadorian night janitor who studies law between shifts; a Colombian engineer...

Port Townsend, Washington. Marzo de 2035. Un terremoto de magnitud 9.0 abre una grieta en el corazón del pueblo en segundos. El maremoto llega en minutos. El gobierno no llega en semanas. La bióloga marina Isabel Reyes lanza a seis niños al otro lado de una grieta antes de que se convierta en...

A Danish smokehouse master and his reluctant apprentice. A Hong Kong cartographer and the student who will eventually surpass her. A Bogotá healer whose plant knowledge exists nowhere but inside her. A Kyoto restorer who can only teach by doing.