When an Incan bridge collapses, killing five Peruvian travelers, a Franciscan friar researches the victims' life histories.

La idea de esta novela comenz c̤on una imagen de dos seǫras amigas que de pronto una noche, de una manera impensada para ambas, viven una situacin̤ ert̤ica. Luego se fue convirtiendo en una historia policial, casi un thriller, y el thriller se fue transformando en una especie de mural de la sociedad peruana en los l͠timos meses o semanas de la dictadura de Fujimori y Montesinos. Me gust l̤a idea de que la historia se llamase Cinco esquinas como...

The rules don't apply to two businessmen who will stop at nothing to keep control of the fates that await them. While small-business owner Felicito Yanaque stands tall in the face of blackmail, Lima businessman Ismael Carrera prepares to teach his worthless sons a lesson: Never try to get your old man killed.

A sweeping, epic historical novel of exploration and invasion, of slaves and conquerors, and above all, an enduring love that must overcome the forging of an empire. Plucked from his small fishing village and captured by the conquistadors looking to plunder the gold of Peru, young Waman is the everyman thrown into extraordinary circumstances, caught up in history's throes. He finds himself at every major moment in the empire-building of the Spanish...