Los 39. El Fuerte Navidad (La pérdida del paraíso, 2)

What happened to the first Spaniards who set foot in the New World? How did the dream that promised glory end in tragedy? January 1493. Christopher Columbus returns to Spain to announce his discovery to the Catholic Monarchs. On the island of Hispaniola, he leaves thirty-nine men at Fort Navidad, the first European colony in the Americas. There begins a fascinating and brutal story: that of the pioneers who dreamed of paradise and found hell. The lust for gold, power struggles, disease, and an unbridled desire for Taíno women ignited an irreversible conflict between colonists and indigenous people. Amidst this chaos, Marín de Urtubia, a cultured and contradictory man, experiences an impossible love with the young Canayma while witnessing the collapse of Columbus's ideals and the violent birth of a new world. With a powerful narrative drive and impeccable historical reconstruction, José Luis Muñoz immerses us in the days that marked the beginning of the conquest, in a novel where adventure, passion and tragedy merge to show the human side of the epic.