Arauco: A Novel
John Caviglia
- When
- in
- 1540
- Pedro
- de
- Valdivia
- left
- Peru
- to
- conquer
- lands
- south,
- he
- took
- with
- him
- his
- beautiful
- mistress,
- Inés
- de
- Suárez.
- With
- him
- also
- rode
- his
- secretary,
- Juan
- de
- Cardeña,
- whose
- hopeless
- love
- of
- Inés
- stems
- from
- the
- same
- romances
- that
- inspired
- Don
- Quixote.
- Crossing
- the
- Atacama
- Desert
- and
- founding
- the
- city
- of
- Santiago,
- then
- taking
- their
- conquest
- south,
- the
- Spanish
- encounter
- the
- indomitable
- resistance
- of
- the
- Mapuche….For
- the
- first
- time,
- Arauco
- recreates
- the
- invasion
- of
- the
- land
- now
- called
- Chile
- from
- both
- the
- Spanish
- and
- native
- points
- of
- view,
- so
- that
- its
- pages
- also
- include:
- Lautaro,
- the
- Mapuche
- youth
- who
- led
- his
- people
- to
- an
- epic
- victory;
- Ñamku,
- albino
- shaman
- of
- the
- Mapuche;
- his
- sworn
- enemy,
- the
- sorcerer
- Kurufil.
- And
- Arauco
- also
- tells
- of
- Raytrayen,
- the
- Mapuche
- girl
- Juan
- de
- Cardeña
- came
- to love….
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