Ronald Wright

The Gold Eaters

A Novel

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A sweeping, epic historical novel of exploration and invasion, of conquest and resistance, and of an enduring love that must overcome the destruction of one empire by another Kidnapped at sea by conquistadors seeking the golden land of Peru, a young Inca boy named Waman is the everyman thrown into extraordinary circumstances. Forced to become Francisco Pizarro's translator, he finds himself caught up in one of history's great clashes of civilizations, the Spanish invasion of the Inca Empire in the 1530s. To survive, he must not only learn political gamesmanship but also discover who he truly is, and in what country and culture he belongs.… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-14-319616-7
EAN: 9780143196167
Produktnummer: 18126303
Verlag: Penguin Canada
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 384 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 567 KB

Über den Autor

Novelist and historian RONALD WRIGHT is the award-winning author of ten books published in 16 languages and more than 40 countries. A Short History of Progress, his CBC Massey Lectures, won the Libris Award for Non-Fiction Book of the Year and inspired Martin Scorsese's 2011 film Surviving Progress. Wright's first novel, A Scientific Romance, won Britain's David Higham Prize for Fiction and was chosen a book of the year by The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, and the Sunday Times. His acclaimed works Cut Stones and Crossroads, Time Among the Maya, and Stolen Continents are now available as Penguin Modern Classics. Online: www.ronaldwright.com