Bartolomé de las Casas, crónica de un sueño

Synopsis of Bartolomé de las Casas, crónica de un sueño

«Bartolomé de las Casas, crónica de un sueño» is the historical novel by José Luis Olaizola, published by Planeta in paperback (205 pages, in Spanish).

The novel follows the life of Bartolomé de las Casas, from his youth as a gold seeker in Hispaniola and landowner in Cuba to his conversion into a Dominican friar and defender of the Indians. Narrated as an autobiography, it contrasts the ambition and abuses of the conquerors with the defense of the dignity of indigenous people in the Caribbean.

The book is part of the collection Memoria de la historia, number 57, and its first edition dates from 1991.

For readers of historical fiction and biography interested in the conquest of America and in figures as debated as Bartolomé de las Casas.