{"product_id":"what-they-said-about-luisa-by-erika-rummel-9781459752771","title":"What They Said About Luisa","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn enchanting tale of the complex and fascinating life of Luisa Abrego of Seville, an emancipated woman who forges a new future for herself in colonial Mexico and gets caught in the Spanish Inquisition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLuisa Abrego, an enslaved woman in Seville, is impregnated by her master, then set free upon his death. With limited options for her future, Luisa agrees to marry a white man who wants to take her with him to Mexico, even though it means leaving her infant son behind in the care of nuns.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe couple set off on a dangerous sea voyage and a perilous trek across unconquered territory, and when the settlers' caravan is attacked by Indigenous warriors, Luisa is forced to kill a man in self-defence. Years later, still wracked with guilt and convinced she must atone for her sin, Luisa confesses to having made a promise of marriage to another man long before, in Spain. By the laws of the church, this makes her a bigamist, a criminal who must be tried by the fearsome Inquisition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBased on sixteenth-century trial records of the real Luisa, \u003cem\u003eWhat They Said About Luisa\u003c\/em\u003e is not just one woman's life in fragments but a carefully researched imagining, told in the vivid, distinct voices of the Europeans who came into contact with her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47537465262316,"sku":"9781459752771","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/bec87ea4ee26c3cc11b4d83387a600d4.jpg?v=1776901182","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/what-they-said-about-luisa-by-erika-rummel-9781459752771","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}