
Malinche |
Book Category:
Fiction > Romance > Historical
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Author:
Laura Esquivel
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Binding:
Paperback
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ISBN 13:
9780743290364
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Price:
$ 9.71
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Publication Year:
2008
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Publisher Info
Simon & Schuster. InquiryWhen Malinalli meets Hernan Cortes, she assumes that it is the Quetzalcoatl God himself who returns to free her people. The two fall passionately in love, but this love is soon destroyed by Cortes' unbridled thirst for conquest, power, and wealth. Throughout the history of Mexico Malinalli / Malinche has been known for her betrayal of the Indian people. But recent historical research has shown that Malinalli was the mediator between two cultures, the Hispanic and the indigenous; And between two languages, Spanish and Nahuatl. What Esquivel has done in this novel is to challenge traditional mythology through a very temperamental portrait of the Adam and Eve of the Mestizo culture, Cortes and Malinalli, with the fall of the Aztec empire as a backdrop. Laid to the lyricism of the singing and pictorial tradition of Nahuatl, Laura Esquivel offers us a foundational myth of the hybrid culture of the New World and an extraordinary love story.