Vladimir Vertlib - The Empress’s Jew
Vivid, gripping and claustrophobic, Vladimir Vertlib’s new novel explores love and hate, faith and betrayal—and the will to live, come what may.
Vienna, circa 1670: a city of extraordinary splendour and grinding poverty. Emperor Leopold I is struggling to find more money to fund his military campaigns, and he also desperately needs an heir. The Empress’s personal physician, Pedro de Rojas, is the only person who can help the frantic Empress Margarita Teresa. But de Rojas is hiding a dangerous secret: he’s a Spanish converso, a converted Jew, and behind closed doors he still practises his faith. The Catholic Empress is trying to banish Jewish people from the city, believing them to be the root of all evil. Will Don Pedro and his beloved Esther, a midwife, be able to stop it? Vladimir Vertlib weaves together comedy and drama in this magnificent novel about religious conflict and social snobbery, persecution, intrigues and betrayal...
Book details
416 pagesformat:125 x 205
ISBN: 9783701718214
Release date: 09.02.2026
License rights
- World rights available