Amazing retelling from the moor’s perspective (a slave) of the Narvaéz expedition to the Americas in 1528 where all but four men died. Poetic language without getting overly lyrical and a beautiful mix of Moroccan past with New World explorations during which they are enslaved by various indigenous peoples and finally learn to adapt to the local customs before the inevitable clash with their old cultures.
Keep her in mind!
How strange, I remember thinking, how utterly strange were the ways of the Castilians - just by saying that something was so, they believed that it was. I know now that these conquerors, like many others before them and no doubt like others after, gave speeches not to voice the truth, but to create it.
