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Author
Pub. Date
2007
Summary
In Los Angeles, Jennifer Narody is having a series of disturbing dreams involving eerie images of a lady in blue. She doesn't know that this same spirit appeared to leaders of the Jumano Native American tribe in New Mexico 362 years earlier, linked to a Spanish nun who had the power to be in two places simultaneously. Meanwhile, journalist Carlos Albert stumbles upon a nearly forgotten seventeenth-century convent in Spain founded by this same legendary...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Summary
"On November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction--the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City and to European colonization of the mainland of the Americas--has long been the symbol of Cortés's bold and brilliant military genius. Montezuma, on the other hand, is remembered as a coward who gave away a vast empire and...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Summary
This novel places us in the social context of an event that brought about a radical change in the lives of those who knew it, and in the relations between the indigenous people and the Spanish people in Mexico five centuries ago.
Esta novela nos sitúa en el contexto social de un acontecimiento que hace cinco siglos supuso un cambio radical en las vidas de quienes lo conocieron y de las relaciones entre los indígenas y los españoles en México....
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Summary
"From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagines the fall of Tenochtitlan. One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernán Cortés entered the city of Tenochtitlan - today's Mexico City. Later that day, he would meet the emperor Moctezuma in a collision of two worlds, two empires, two languages, two possible futures. Cortés was accompanied by his nine captains, his troops, and his two translators:...
