Las niñas del naranjel

To fulfill his Virgin of the orange tree - she has saved him from the gallows - Antonio flees with two starving girls. In the jungle, as alive as an animal made of many, he begins a letter to her aunt, prioress of the convent from which she escaped as a novice. Muleteer, shopkeeper, soldier, cabin boy and page, he has wielded the sword and plunged the dagger. Now he must take care of a herd and Michi and Mitãkuña, who interrupt him again and again with his difficult questions. The author finds in Catalina de Erauso, the legendary Nun Alférez, who narrates the cruel destruction of America and allows her to advance against genders. Where colonial greed destroys, this monumental novel founds a new grammar of love in which Miyazaki's cinema, prayers in Latin, songs in Basque and the words of Guaraní break the metrics of the Golden Age.