Coronado
by Ignacio del Valle
Description
Coronado. The mythical city of Cibola and the search for a new El Dorado led Francisco Vázquez de Coronado to the south of what today are the United States of America. For the first time European eyes saw those lands: vast deserts, red canyons, large plains full of bison, dangerous indigenous tribes... They were years of conquest and evangelization, years plagued by clashes and diseases, but also of glories and objectives achieved. It is the open, non-conformist and astounded Franciscan, Friar Tomás de Urquiza, who tells us this story. So, years after the expedition, in 1564, Friar Tomás reminisces on the expedition in which, twenty years earlier, he accompanied Coronado.
As if he were an ancient chronicler of the Indies, Ignacio del Valle offers us a vibrant and meticulous narrative, in which the facts reach the reader like the close-ups of a film. And together with Friar Tomás, thanks to his ready-witted vision, full of pros and cons, we immerse ourselves in the New World of the mid-sixteenth century.
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Author Biography
Ignacio del Valle (Oviedo, 1971) is the author of the historical thriller series starring Arturo Andrade, made up of El arte de matar dragones, El tiempo de los emperadores extraños – brought to the cinema as Silencio en la nieve-, Los demonios de Berlín, Los días sin ayer y Soles negros, all published by Alfaguara. He is also the author of the novels De donde vienen las olas (1999), El abrazo del boxeador (2001), Cómo el amor no transform el mundo (2005), Busca mi rostro (2012), Índigo mar (2017), and the book of short stories Caminando sobre las aguas (2013). Coronado, his latest novel, is a splendid foray into the historical genre.
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- Publisher Edhasa
- Orginal LanguageSpanish
- ISBN/Identifier 9788435061872
- Publication Country or regionSpain
- FormatHardback
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2019
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