'Cursed' Spanish Novel Published After 400 Years

The news hit recently that a 400-year-old Spanish manuscript — rumored to be cursed — had finally been published:

Why did it take so long for this book, Historia del Huérfano, or The Orphan's Story in English, to be published?

Belinda Palacios, who edited the manuscript, studies Hispanic literature. She's Peruvian but lives in Switzerland. She decided to tackle this novel as part of her PhD, so she wrote to inform the teacher who had originally sent her the manuscript: "And then that was when he told me, 'I must warn you, the novel is cursed. You must know that people who worked on it before have died.' And I thought that he was joking. So I continued with the work."

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