Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Feathered Serpent: A Novel of the Mexican Conquest

3.5/5 ( ratings)

The triumphant, controversial life of the Aztec woman Malinali is one of the great and enduring legends of Mexico. A high-born Mexica heiress, she was sold into slavery as a child, and it was as a slave of the Maya that she met the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés. To her, and many of the Mexica, Cortés, with his ?owing beard and pale skin, was Feathered Serpent, the god whose return to earth foretold the end of Montezuma’s fabled empire. The daughter of a prophet, Malinali knew her fate lay with Feathered Serpent and his invaders. To this day she is reviled as a traitor by Mexico’s native people, but is also honored as a heroine and symbolic mother of a mixed-race nation. This is her story—and the story of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, which for better or worse changed the Americas forever. In Feathered Serpent, Colin Falconer brings the Aztec empire to life in blazing color and gives voice to the incomparable Malinali, who transcended her role as Cortés’s translator and consort to become a fiery agent of history against all odds.

From the Hardcover edition.

Language: English

Pages: 432

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Three Rivers Press

Release: September 23, 2003

ISBN: 1400049571

ISBN 13: 9781400049578

Feathered Serpent: A Novel of the Mexican Conquest

3.5/5 ( ratings)

The triumphant, controversial life of the Aztec woman Malinali is one of the great and enduring legends of Mexico. A high-born Mexica heiress, she was sold into slavery as a child, and it was as a slave of the Maya that she met the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés. To her, and many of the Mexica, Cortés, with his ?owing beard and pale skin, was Feathered Serpent, the god whose return to earth foretold the end of Montezuma’s fabled empire. The daughter of a prophet, Malinali knew her fate lay with Feathered Serpent and his invaders. To this day she is reviled as a traitor by Mexico’s native people, but is also honored as a heroine and symbolic mother of a mixed-race nation. This is her story—and the story of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, which for better or worse changed the Americas forever. In Feathered Serpent, Colin Falconer brings the Aztec empire to life in blazing color and gives voice to the incomparable Malinali, who transcended her role as Cortés’s translator and consort to become a fiery agent of history against all odds.

From the Hardcover edition.

Language: English

Pages: 432

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Three Rivers Press

Release: September 23, 2003

ISBN: 1400049571

ISBN 13: 9781400049578

More books from Colin Falconer

The Unkillable Kitty O'Kane

3.9/5 ( ratings)

When We Were Gods: A Novel of Cleopatra

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Isabella: Braveheart of France

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Silk Road

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Harem

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Silk Road

4.1/5 ( ratings)

A Vain and Indecent Woman (Classic Historical Fiction Book 8)

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Anastacia

3.6/5 ( ratings)

East India: “Even if God forsakes you, I will find you.” (Classic Historical Fiction Book 6)

Aztec

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Fury Book 2: Sleeping with the Enemy (Epic Adventure, #10)

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Sleeping With The Enemy

4.3/5 ( ratings)

East India

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Naked in LA

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Saigon Wife

4.1/5 ( ratings)

East India

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Момичето от Хавана

Източна Индия

3.2/5 ( ratings)

شیطان در کشتی

Zorn der Meere

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?