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It's 1650, and the Peruvian city of Potosi is under investigation from the King of Spain for producing counterfeit silver coins. Meanwhile, the Grand Inquisitor of New Spain is also investigating, this time into the actions of abbess Mother Maria Santa Hilda, who has allowed an apparent suicide, a young woman who died inside the abbey, to be buried in sacred ground. But Mother Maria does not think this was a suicide, and in her attempt to prove her case find out more than even she suspected. ** From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Alfieri effortlessly recreates 17th-century Peru in her impressive debut. In 1650, concerned that counterfeit silver coins originating in Potosí, the largest city in the Western Hemisphere, threaten to undermine the Spanish empire's economic supremacy, Spain's Felipe IV sends an emissary to Potosí to investigate. Meanwhile, the apparent suicide of Inez Rojas de la Morada, a high Potosí official's daughter, offers an inquisitor the chance to declare Mother Maria Santa Hilda, the abbess of the convent where Inez died behind a locked door, a heretic, because the abbess violated religious law by permitting the deceased a church burial. In her effort to refu

Who reads City of Silver?

Author

Annamaria Alfieri

Publisher

Macmillan

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781934609736

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Mystery, Humanities

Rating

4.2 / 5 (46 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14