Where They Burn Books
…and its companion, They Also Burn People.
"Where they burn books, they will in the end burn people too."
Heinrich Heine, 1823
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Two companion novels, four and a half centuries apart, circling the line Heine wrote in 1823: what devotion and the written word can do to a person, and to everyone in reach.
Where They Burn Books opens in 1549. Friar Diego de Landa's faith is beyond question; sent to convert the Maya of the Yucatán, the young Franciscan is certain he's on the path of glory. But as he repatriates thousands and uproots centuries of indigenous tradition, doing the Lord's work starts to look like a cultural catastrophe he can't take back. It's built on real history.
They Also Burn People jumps to 2010. Cortez Vuscar, pious and aching for his absent father, loses his job and drifts into the affluent side of the city, where a kind, beautiful woman captures his heart. His obsession with her, and with the literature she reads, pulls him into a deadly descent into madness.
Authentic settings, dark characters, and the sometimes-dangerous force of belief and desire. Start with either, or take both in the combined edition.
