From Amazon.com
God has fallen to the Earth. Angels are sleeping with women. There is an immaculate conception, and lights are seen in the heavens. Heady stuff for the small village of Quintas, located in Portugal about the time of the Inquisition. While the pragmatic Father Pessoa struggles to keep the strange goings-on hidden from the eyes of the inquistors, the simple King Alfonso has decided that the stricken alien ship is God Himself. And God has let Alfonso in on a secret: the Earth orbits the sun. Unfortunately, the inquisitor-general is on his way to straighten things out. There will be no easy answers.
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From Booklist
On sixteenth-century Portugal falls a star from heaven with three strange beings aboard. Are they angels or devils? That is the burning question--literally, for the Inquisition is active, and the lives and deaths of several people depend on the answer. The strange creatures are almost peripheral, however, and Anthony's story is one of faith and humanity and how the unknown is forced into the habiliments of the knowable. The childish king Alfonso, the Jesuit priest Pessoa, the inquisitor Monsignor Gomes, as well as the poor villagers who are the immediate witnesses to the star's falling--all have their lives changed, and in fantastic ways. Anthony's depiction of life, death, and legal procedure is nothing short of masterful in this superb book that departs far from the usual, well-trod trails of speculative fiction but deserves high praise in spite of that, or, perhaps, because of it.
Dennis Winters
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