The Confusion (novel)
The Confusion is a novel by Neal Stephenson. It is the second volume in The Baroque Cycle.
The Confusion consists of two books, Bonanza and The Juncto which are mixed together, so that one jumps back and forth between them as one reads through The Confusion.
Main characters
Other characters
Dappa - Nigerian, gallery slave, sailor aboard
Minerva.
Enoch Root
Moseh de la Cruz - galley slave, Spanish Jew.
Vrej Esphanian - galley slave
Mr. Foot - galley slave
Èdouard de Gex - Jesuit fanatic
Gabriel Goto - galley slave, Jesuit priest from Japan.
Lothar von Hacklheber - German banker obsessed with alchemy
Jeronimo - galley slave, a vile but high-born Spaniard.
Nyazi - galley slave, camel-trader of the Upper Nile.
Otto van Hoek - galley slave, captain of the
Minerva.
Yevgeny the Raskolnik - galley slave
Bonaventure Rossignol - French cryptologist.
Danny Shaftoe - son of Jack Shaftoe
April,
2004.
