El profeta de los Andes

The prophet of the Andes traces the incredible journey of the Peruvian Segundo Villanueva, who, upon reading for the first time a Bible that had belonged to his murdered father, undertook a search that would take him from the Catholic Church to a succession of Protestant sects, including a which he himself founded, until finally leading to Judaism. That spiritual journey, which inspired hundreds of followers, led him from the north of the Peruvian Andes to the Amazon jungle, leaving him, at the end of his life, in a Jewish colony in the occupied Palestinian territories of the West Bank. In reconstructing that extraordinary adventure, Graciela Mochkofsky reveals what is perhaps one of the most astonishing chapters in the history of modern religion. And she builds riveting, rigorously researched nonfiction around a unique spiritual determination. This book, which reads like a novel, is both a moving story about the personal concern of reaching an elusive truth and a collective epic based on centuries of colonial, political and religious history that would fuel the emergence of an emergent Latin American Judaism without precedents.