In an Afterword, Ronald Wright writes: “I have kept to the skeleton of fact, adding flesh where fiction demands. Wright named his protagonist Waman in honour of Felipe Waman Puma, “the indigenous writer and artist whose work so brilliantly illuminates the Peruvian experience of those tragic times.” Not unlike the infamous, real-life translator Malinche who assisted Cortez to conquer the Aztecs of Mexico, Wright’s translator must somehow maintain integrity while witnessing slaughterous triumphs to which he has been a party. Wright’s fictional character from what is now Peru is forced to serve as Francisco Pizarro’s translator to survive, hoping to be re-united with his childhood sweetheart and his family. The Gold Eaters (Hamish Hamilton 2015) follows the life and times of an Inca boy during the Spanish invasion of the Inca empire in the 1530s. Only then can he be reunited with the love of his life and begin the search for his shattered family, journeying through a land and a time vividly depicted here.īased closely on real historical events, The Gold Eaters draws on Ronald Wright’s imaginative skill as a novelist and his deep knowledge of South America to bring alive an epic struggle that laid the foundations of the modern world.Ronald Wright at the Inca fortress at Cusco. To survive, he must not only learn political gamesmanship but also discover who he truly is, and in what country and culture he belongs.
Forced to become Francisco Pizarro's translator, he finds himself caught up in one of history's great clashes of civilzations, the Spanish invasion of the Incan Empire of the 1530s. Kidnapped at sea by conquistadors seeking the golden land of Peru, a young Inca boy named Waman is the everyman thrown into extraordinary circumstances. “Utterly irresistible… The Gold Eaters is truly the gold standard to which all fiction - historical and otherwise - should aspire.” - BuzzfeedĪ sweeping, epic historical novel of exploration and invasion, of conquest and resistance, and of an enduring love that must overcome the destruction of one empire by another.
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