In late 16th-century Goa, despite the Catholic Inquision, the Zarco family holds firm to its Portuguese-Jewish roots. Ti and his sister enjoy their childhood with secret dips into the heady chaos of the Hindu festivals of their beloved cook, Nupi. But as they reach adulthood, the family is torn apart when the father and then the son are imprisoned by the Inquisition. Only someone close to the family could have denounced them. Intent on revenge, Ti is forced finally to face the truth of the betrayal and reassess his most fundamental beliefs.
- ISBN10 1845290917
- ISBN13 9781845290917
- Publish Date 27 January 2005
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 30 August 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Constable
- Format Paperback
- Pages 400
- Language English