Yes. But it is not a book from 1998. I have read it in 1945 or 48. It is a novel but the author used historic documents to support his imaginative tales, so that it seem to be "real". What is most important is language and how Pérez used it in descriptions, landscape and portraits and his style almost poetry. I use it to exercise students in reading and understanding "logically" long "sentences" and extract them in its basic "parts" looking for "meaning". But the way this book catch feelings is amazing, no matter the author -Pérez Escrich- is a well manifested anti-semitist (as many of his age fellows in Spain). ¿More? Marta Mena, guatemalan writer.