Book of Laments (Paperback)

Lingua: inglese

Editore: Independently Published, 2026

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Paperback. Seville, present day. A gray archival box. A manuscript no one was expecting to find.When Roberto Alvarado, a Mexican-American historian of colonial Latin America, is summoned to the Archivo de Indias, he finds what appears to be an unpublished manuscript in the hand of Bartolome de las Casas - the sixteenth-century Dominican friar who witnessed the Spanish conquest of the Americas and spent fifty years bearing witness to its destruction. Structured as a series of probanzas, the legal testimonies of his era, the manuscript is Las Casas in his final years: accounting, in precise and merciless prose, for what he saw and failed to stop.But Las Casas did not write alone. Between his testimonies, other voices surface - the voices the archive has no room for: Xara, a woman from Hispaniola moving through a household that does not see herCaiman, running from the massacre at Caonao with no destination except awayRodrigo Cuneo, a translator who serves two masters and belongs to neitherAj Xpiyakok, a Maya daykeeper recording what must be preservedTezozomoc, a Nahua scribe burning his own writing to protect itCitlali Tozani, doing the work that history will not recordAs Roberto translates the manuscript across a year in Seville, a discovery in a different gray box changes everything he thought he was studying. The history he has spent two decades holding at the appropriate professional distance - through the archival cotton gloves he put on himself - begins, at last, to move.The Book of Laments is a novel about testimony and its limits: about who speaks for whom, what the archive preserves and what it erases, and what it costs a person to discover they have been living inside the very history they have spent their life studying. It is, above all, a novel about the people the record cannot hold.For readers of Yaa Gyasi, Hilary Mantel, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Eduardo Galeano. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Titolo
Book of Laments (Paperback)
Autore
Ricardo Gomez
Editore
Independently Published
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
Condizione
new
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 13
9798251055238

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