by Colette Davenat · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246506911
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«La femme choisie» is the historical novel by Colette Davenat, published by Grasset in paperback (329 pages, in French).
In the Inca Empire, Azarpay is one of the young women chosen to serve in the court of Cuzco; her beauty makes her a favorite of several Incas and, later, the wife of a Spanish conquistador. The account of her rise intertwines with the duel between the protagonist and the Jesuit Juan de Mendoza, sent to investigate her alleged idolatrous practices.
The novel was originally published in 1995 and its cover includes the subtitle «roman».
For readers of historical fiction interested in the Inca Empire, the encounter between cultures and stories of female resistance.
