Between 1573 and 1617, during the witch trials in Würzburg, southern Germany, 900 people were burned at the stake. In this powerful novel evoking the murderous fury of the time and the disastrous consequences of the blind faith of churchmen and their flocks, Eduardo Sangarcía depicts a young woman, Anna Thalberg, whose only crime is to be redhead and to stir up, in spite of herself, the desire of the men of the village, where she has been living modestly for a short time with her husband, Klaus. “I didn’t know evil before my examiner crossed my path,” she said under torture. With a syntax reminiscent of that of Saramago, dialogues arranged in such a way as to illustrate the confrontation between Anna and the filthy Vogel, the Mexican author sucks us into a vortex of hypocrisy, cruelty and horror. Dark and violent chronicle of an announced death, the fact remains thatAnna Thalberg we have a final where logic and lucidity triumph in a terrible way.
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