SUMMARY: Meet art historian Vicky Bliss, She is as beautiful as she is brainy--with unassailable courage, insatiable curiosity, and an expertise in lost museum treasures that often leads her into the most dangerous of situations.A missing masterwork in wood, the last creation of a master carver who
Night of Sorrows
โ Scribed by Frances Sherwood
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Year
- 2006;2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 253 KB
- Edition
- 1st Norton pbk. ed
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
A tale of love and conquest, "full of page-turning situations...worthy of a Garcia Lorca drama" (San Francisco Chronicle).A historical novel about the conquistador Cortes and the Aztec princess Malintzin, by a "stunning" (New York Times Book Review) writer. Night of Sorrows plunges readers into the conflicting New Worlds of the mysterious Malintzin, born as an Aztec princess and sold as a slave, and her dashing and ruthless lover-master, conquistador Hernan Cortes. As they march through the Empire of the Sun to the shimmering island metropolis, Tenochtitlan (Mexico City), Cortes advances his cause by winning friends through Machiavellian conniving and confronting enemies in merciless battle. We witness the volatile dynamics and multifarious intrigues of the commander and his temperamental compadres, and weather the heartbreaking inner odyssey of Malintzin. Set at the twilight of the Aztec empire--April 1519...
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