Hernán Cortés enters Mehxicoh-Tenoxtitlan with his nine captains, his two translators -the friar Aguilar and Malinalli, interpreter and lover-, his troops and their horses. There the princess Atotoxtli, sister and wife of Moctezuma, entertains them with a meal, accompanied by the priests, and later the emperor Moctezuma himself will receive the caudillo Cortés. Some have never seen horses in their lives, others have never tasted chocolate until now. The Spaniards are welcome in the city, but one of Cortés' subordinates, Jazmín Caldera, does not dare to tell him that the worry had never been how to get to Tenoxtitlan, but how to get out once they were inside. On November 8, 1519, the meeting between Cortés and Moctezuma takes place, whom no one can look directly in the face if he does not first give his permission. It is the meeting between two worlds, two empires, two languages, two worldviews. What happened? What could happen? Where does the truth end and the legend begin? How to approach history from fiction? Álvaro Enrigue has written a powerful narrative: a possible version of the meeting that changed the history of the world, a novel wrapped in mysteries, violence, desire for power and dreams that have been empires. --Publisher's website.