In the last twenty-five years, Jews have emerged as a literary figure as well as a literary theme in Spain. Catalan writers such as Maria Àngels Anglada (1930–99), Carme Riera (1948–), and Vicenç Villatoro (1957–) approach the Jewish theme and the representation of the Jew as literary character in order to reflect on issues regarding identity and history in novels, such as El violí d'Auschwitz (1994), Dins el darrer blau (1994), and Memòria del traïdor (1996), respectively. With Dins el darrer blau, written between 1989 and 1993, published in Catalan in 1994 and in Castilian in 1996, Riera starts a series of novels dedicated to the Majorcan xuetes (Jews who were converted to Christianity) which she finishes with Cap al cel obert in 1999. In this essay I will reflect on how Riera's Dins el darrer blau revisits the past in order to create a “culture of memory,” a process in which society confronts its traumatic past and the history of exile and repression, linking the history of the Jewish converts to the history of the Balearic island, Majorca. Riera's novel is based on historical events that occurred in the City of Majorca from 1687 to 1691. On March 7, 1687, a group of Majorcan Jewish converts, afraid of being persecuted by the Inquisition because of the accusations of an informer (Rafel Cortès, Costura), boarded Captain Willis's boat bound for Livorno, Italy. Weather conditions impeded their voyage. Returning home, the fugitives were apprehended. Apparently, the arrests happened by chance. A mad woman (Caterina Bonnín), whose family had tried to escape on the boat, began to yell and alerted the patrol. The sheriff caught men, women, and children who had participated in the attempted flight and took them to the palace of the Inquisition, “the black house,” where all their goods were confiscated.