But really, it is so much more than that. If you need it in a nut shell, that is it. I don't know of a school that would put this on their curriculum. Enjoyable from start to finish, this love story was also educational. This story is action packed and also a love story. I would have never had that without reading this book. Now, I have an appreciation of the origins of the city. I had not considered spending more time in Santiago. I wish I could spend half a day wandering through Santiago to see the square and imagine Inés doing her thing there. And that is what prompted me to read it now. Not only did I enjoy reading this, I learned about the conquest of Chile too. Times have never been so clean and tidy as they are now. Some descriptions of events are more graphic that I need, but they are not out of line of the times. The structure of pretending to be an autobiography is a little slow at the beginning, but ultimately, it works. Inés travels the lands, falls in love, finds water, fights the enemies, tends the wounded, builds a city, scares off the invaders, and builds three different lives along the way. It's a pretty big thing to cross the ocean and found a new country. It is written as an autobiography by Inés Suárez, initially a Spanish seamstress, who would go on to become cofounder of a new nation.Īlthough this book is only about the life of one woman, it feels epic. This is a historical novel detailing the conquest of Chile in the mid-sixteenth century.
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