Nobody knows, by Tony Gratacós

The most established facts in the popular imagination hang from the thread of the official chronicles. History shapes national livelihoods and legends; all pasted under the umbrella of the patriotic sense of the day. And yet we can all intuit that there will be things more or less true. Because the epic was always written from the notion of the winners of any battle, or pointing to the superhuman heroism of the companies taken at any time.

Undoubtedly a fertile field for fiction literature to have a good account of gaps, suspicions or any other options where to draw new arguments. Curiously, we seldom come across critical reviews of fiction about the mythical first circumnavigation of the world. Now, from the hand of Tony Gratacós, it is the turn of such an assignment for everyone's enjoyment...

When Diego de Soto finishes his university studies in Valladolid, he is required by one of his professors, the great royal chronicler Pedro Mártir de Anglería, to be his disciple and carry out his first assignment as an assistant: Diego must travel to Seville to collect data of overseas expeditions and thus complete his chronicles.

But this journey holds much more for him than he can imagine. It will put him on the trail of Magellan's journey, considered a traitor by many, and he will discover what the few who returned from that epic expedition that managed to reach the Moluccas Islands and go around the world for the first time say, among them the new hero Elcano, does not coincide with the official chronicles. This revelation will make him doubt everything that has been said about the Portuguese up to that point. Because what if history lies? A unique adventure that immerses us in one of the most splendid and fascinating times in the history of Spain and that hides an exciting secret that has taken five hundred years to come to light.

Nobody knows, Tony Gratacós
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