The history of pre-Hispanic South America is prolific in narratives of violence perpetuated in battle and premeditation to an indigent population, most of this for the sake of feeding a perverse avarice that was the fashion for Old World society at the time. This conquering force overcame great odds and difficulties to satisfy their greed for material treasure and, seemingly manifested their frustration and discomfort on these communities. Their occupation showed the brutality of a society desperate to pay their debts and build their riches with whatever could be extracted from other people, foreign lands. What is missing are narratives that tell of the day-to-day of the people of these civilizations as they evolved into true humane societies and the myths which they created to satisfy their curiosities in the workings of their natural world. What has mostly been lost to history is the spark of emotional energy occurring when the European met the American for the first time. Zoratama is a glimpse told in the passion of a conquistador for an American beauty: the love, the eroticism, the loss and the tragedy. Jaime Bedoya Martinez's Zoratama intends to explain the background of what is a modern Hispanic society through the eyes and passion of these two people of divergent worlds. His view that the culture of the Muisca has been neglected is true in the sense that although there are countless anthropological and archeological studies that explain in detail the life, religion, society of these people, there is little that encompasses the fiery merging of the two cultures into one. And the assimilation, whether militarily or societal, of these cultures is anything but polite; the Spaniards greedy and brutal, the Muisca resolute and tribal. Mr. Bedoya beautifully builds an alternate storyline which ultimately argues that love of passion and transcendence has no boundaries. Zoratama, the Muisca princess, and Lázaro Fonte, the Spanish conquistador, construct a love story for the ages replete with spiritual integration and an offspring of a new race.The writer in his true fashion destroys this love, immersed in the tragic myths of both races, in an absurd annihilation of people, family, emotion and sentiment because the metaphor that evolves is the incarnation of the new race, culture and historical footprint.