Product Description

This is 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. When 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #769989 in Books
• Published on: 2006-07-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 208 pages

Customer Reviews

Worst book ever
I am sorry to say that this book is one of the worst I have ever read. It's an appalling story between Malinalli and Cortes, (apart from giving good explanation and description of what the spanish did on mexican land and how they sacked everything that was of value to them) the story itself it's abismal. I paided £15.99 from this book and I am sorry to say it wasn't worth it.