El rey del Perú

Juan Pedro Cosano presents a novel with a little-known episode of that epic: the adventure of Gonzalo Pizarro, Francisco's younger brother, a bastard like him, and who accompanied him on his expedition to America in 1531, the beginning of the conquest of Peru. After the brutal assassination of the conquistador Pizarro by a group of Spaniards around Diego de Almagro in 1541, Gonzalo led a rebel faction, facing the Crown and with the purpose of taking control of the very rich Inca territories recently dominated. The story is told from the point of view of his lover, the lady Nayaraq (a name that in Quechua means "he who has many desires"), witness to the end of one world and the beginning of another.