title: El Iluminado: A Graphic Novel
author:  Ilan Stavans 
description: Stavans and Sheinkin have created that unusual literary piece in which, with a small dab of fiction added to a meaty portion of fact, the reader experiences both an enhanced understanding of the history and a delight in the fictional garnish. Stavans, a Mexican migr who teaches at Amherst College, and Sheinkin, who illustrates and writes the juvenile graphic novels featuring Rabbi Harvey in the Wild West, prove the right team to bring to life the complex past and even more complicated present of the crypto-Jews of New Mexico. The narrative features Stavans as himself and hurls him into a murder mystery that unfolds upon his arrival in Santa Fe. In conversations that are depicted in long passages, Stavans fills in the history of crypto-Jewish settlement in the area without letting the pace of the mystery waver. This unusual work offers crossover appeal for those who dont normally read graphic novels, and it is a great introduction to the fascinating history of Crypto-Judaism in the American Southwest. --Francisca Goldsmith
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  ## **HÅKAN NESSER**
  
  
  # **INTRIGO**
  
  
  _Translated from the Swedish_  
   _by Deborah Bragan-Turner_  
   _and Paul Norlen_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## **Contents**
  
  
  [_Foreword_](foreword.xhtml#foreword)
  
  
  [TOM](part001.xhtml#part001)
  
  
  [REIN](part002.xhtml#part002)
  
  
  [DEAR AGNES](part003.xhtml#part003)
  
  
  [THE FLOWER FROM SAMARIA](part004.xhtml#part004)
  
  
  [ALL THE INFORMATION IN THE CASE](part005.xhtml#part005)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## **Foreword**
  
  
  Intrigo is a cafe located on Keymerstraat in central Maardam.
  
  
  It is also the collective name of three films directed by Daniel Alfredson,
  shot in 2017, with international premieres in 2018–19: _Death of an Author_ ,
  _Samaria_ and _Dear Agnes_. The films are based on some of my stories – the
  last four in this volume – and have previously been published in Swedish. The
  novella that opens this collection, _Tom_ , is newly written and is published
  here for the first time.
  
  
  A book is a book, a movie is a movie. Stories must often be redirected, find
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