Gioconda Belli

The Scroll of Seduction

Historical novel of seduction and power across Spanish conquest and modernity

About the author

Gioconda Belli
Gioconda Belli

Nicaraguan poet and novelist who was active in the Sandinista revolution and whose passionate verse celebrates female eroticism and political commitment. The Inhabited Woman is her most celebrated novel.

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