Episodios, anécdotas y leyendas del descubrimiento y la conquista

Where history dissolves into myth and returned voices speak across centuries, Anselmo Fletes weaves twenty-eight legends that challenge the single story of America's discovery. Written in the tradition of Washington Irving's Alhambra tales but told from the Other side of the conquest, these narratives pulse with the oral heartbeat of Central America, Colombia, Mexico, the Caribbean, and beyond. Here Christopher Columbus shares pages with Taíno chiefs, Spanish priests with Maya storytellers, and the landscape itself becomes a character: volcanoes whisper, jungles remember, and rivers carry the voices of the drowned. Fletes gathers what official chronicles omitted: the dreams, terrors, and stubborn Resistances of peoples who watched their worlds transform. These are not neutral tales. They are the stories grandchildren told grandchildren, passed down through generations that lived inside the collision. For readers hungry for the Americas beyond the textbook, for anyone who understands that every conquest generated a thousand counter-narratives, this collection is a portal into the living memory of a hemisphere.