"I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition..."

In the upcoming June 4 New York Times Book Review (The Summer Reading issue, to be precise) Miguel Delibes's historical novel set during the Spanish Inquisition, THE HERETIC, receives a great review in the Fiction Chronicle:

"[an] absorbing novel of the Inquisition [and] an engaging account of the lives, loves and fate of the wealthy Salcedo family."

"The delight here is in the detail of Spanish life, particularly of Valladolid, the novel's setting and Delibes's hometown...In Alfred MacAdam's unvarnished translation, Cipriano seems a halfhearted convert. Having been rejected by his father, then losing his wife, he is simply a man looking for a ameaning and a way to assuage his guilt who falls prey to a persuasive group of reformers. But in the book's powerful final chapters, those "new Christian" mentors turn out not to have half the spine of Cipriano."

...and there's a Boston Globe review on the way!
--John Mark