Genres : Asian

History remembers the fall of Ferdinand Magellan, but it forgets the lives caught in his death's shadow. 1521: The Defiance is not merely a retelling of the Battle of Mactan. It is a reckoning with how history is written, who is remembered, and whose stories endure. Drawing from Antonio Pigafetta’s chronicle, the only surviving firsthand account of Magellan’s final expedition, and grounded in precolonial Visayan culture, this novel explores the lives, fears, and convictions of those who stood on both...