Malinche - Softcover

Esquivel, Laura

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 141652214X ISBN 13: 9781416522140

Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK, 2007

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An extraordinary retelling of the passionate and tragic love between the conquistador Cortez and the Indian woman Malinalli, his interpreter during his conquest of the Aztecs. Malinalli's Indian tribe has been conquered by the warrior Aztecs. When her father is killed in battle, she is raised by her wisewoman grandmother who imparts to her the knowledge that their founding forefather god, Quetzalcoatl, had abandoned them after being made drunk by a trickster god and committing incest with his sister. But he was determined to return with the rising sun and save her tribe from their present captivity. Wheh Malinalli meets Cortez she, like many, suspects that he is the returning Quetzalcoatl, and assumes her task is to welcome him and help him destroy the Aztec empire and free her people. The two fall passionately in love, but Malinalli gradually comes to realize that Cortez's thirst for conquest is all too human, and that for gold and power, he is willing to destroy anyone, even his own men, even their own love.

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"Lyrical."

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"Elegant and simple prose."

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"Elegant and simple prose."

-- "New York Post"

"[an] amazing story."

-- "San Francisco Chronicle"

"Ambitious and inventive."

-- "Los Angeles Times"

"Lyrical."

-- "The New York Times"

"Lyrical."
-- "The New York Times"

About the Author:

Laura Esquivel is one of Mexico's most celebrated writers. She now divides her time between Mexico City and New York. Originally a screenwriter, she wrote the script for the award-winning film of her bestselling first book, LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE.

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