Malinche Spanish Version: Novela

Laura Esquivel

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Book cover for Malinche Spanish Version: Novela

Malinche Spanish Version: Novela

Malinche Spanish Version: Novela

Laura Esquivel

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Description

Cuando Malinalli conoce a Hernán Cortés, asume que se trata del propio Dios Quetzalcóatl que regresa a liberar a su pueblo. Los dos se enamoran apasionadamente, pero este amor pronto es destruido por la desmedida sed de conquista, poder y riqueza de Cortés. A lo largo de la historia de México Malinalli/Malinche ha sido conocida por su traición al pueblo indio. Pero recientes investigaciones históricas han demostrado que Malinalli fue la mediadora entre dos culturas, la hispánica y la indígena; y entre dos lenguas, el español y el náhuatl. Lo que Esquivel ha hecho en esta novela es desafiar la mitología tradicional mediante un retrato muy temperamental del Adán y la Eva de la cultura mestiza, Cortés y Malinalli, con la caída del imperio azteca como telón de fondo. Contada con el lirismo de la tradición cantarina y pictórica del náhuatl, Laura Esquivel nos brinda un mito fundacional de la cultura híbrida del Nuevo Mundo y una extraordinaria historia de amor.

About the Author

Laura Esquivel was born in Mexico City in 1950. Her first novel, Like Water for Chocolate, has sold more than four and a half million copies around the world and remained on the New York Times bestseller list for more than a year. She currently lives in Mexico

Critical Reviews

"Lyrical."

-- "The New York Times"

"[an] amazing story."

-- "San Francisco Chronicle"

"There's something gentle, mystical, yet strong about Laura Esquivel."

-- "The Miami Herald"

"Elegant and simple prose."

-- "New York Post"

"Esquivel puts imaginative flesh on the bones of legend."

-- "The Boston Globe"

"Ambitious and inventive."

-- "Los Angeles Times"

Publishing Information

Publisher: Atria Books
Pub date: 2008-04-15
Length: 224 pages

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