A reimagining of the life of Antonio de Erauso, a Basque nun who becomes a soldier during the 17th‑century Spanish conquest. Following Antonio as he reinvents himself across the Americas and hides in the jungle with two young Guaraní girls after escaping imprisonment, the novel explores conquest, colonialism, religious authority, and the treatment of women and indigenous peoples through a queer, magical‑realist lens.

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