Book of Laments

Seville, present day. A gray archival box. A manuscript no one was expecting to find.When Roberto Alvarado, a historian of colonial Latin America, is summoned to the Archivo de Indias, he finds what appears to be an unpublished manuscript in the hand of Bartolomé de las Casas — the sixteenth-century Dominican friar who witnessed the Spanish conquest of the Americas and spent fifty years bearing wi...