Anayansi: A Novel
They called it discovery. She called it home.
Dari n, 1511. When Spanish soldiers burn her father's grain and bind his wrists, Anayansi wishes their leader dead. Then the cacique Careta seals his alliance with Vasco N ez de Balboa the only way a defeated ruler can: by giving him his daughter.
She becomes Balboa's interpreter, his counselor, his lover, and the one voice he cannot silence. She teaches him the names of rivers and the cost of every promise. She saves lives and loses others. And when a rebellion of her own people threatens the Spanish town, she faces a choice that will follow her for the rest of her life.
Balboa crosses the mountains and becomes the first European to see the Pacific. His fame reaches the court of Spain. But the old governor Pedrarias D vila, the man called Furor Domini, is watching. As intrigue tightens around them, Anayansi must decide what loyalty means when love and conscience pull in opposite directions.
Inspired by Panamanian legend and the documented history of the first Spanish town on the American mainland, Anayansi is a sweeping story of love, power, and survival at the edge of two worlds. It is a love story that refuses to forgive its hero, and a history that refuses to let the conquered be footnotes.
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