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Historical person
La Malinche, also known as Malintzin or Doña Marina, was an Indigenous woman who became interpreter, adviser and intermediary for Hernán Cortés. Her linguistic skill was essential to Spanish diplomacy and alliance-building during the conquest of the Aztec Empire, while later memory has cast her variously as survivor, mother, mediator and traitor.
In Colin Falconer’s Feathered Serpent, Among the women transferred to his expedition is Malinali, later known as La Malinche, whose languages and political understanding make her indispensable as the Spaniards seek allies against Moctezuma's empire. In Gary Jennings’s Aztec Revenge, Martín Cortés, known as El Mestizo and born to Hernán Cortés and La Malinche, understands that Juan’s unknown lineage may carry political significance. Other novels featuring La Malinche include Manolo Palomares’s Mestizo and Manolo Palomares’s Hernán Cortés and the Conquest of Mexico.
Series
The Aztec sequence follows Indigenous and mixed-ancestry protagonists through five centuries of Mexican history, from the height of Tenochtitlan to the wars that ended Spanish rule. The first novel gives Mixtli’s account of the empire under Ahuitzotl and Moctezuma II and carries his life into the conquest. Later…
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Epic Historical Adventure is Colin Falconer's publisher-defined collection of stand-alone historical thrillers rather than a continuous narrative sequence. The novels range from Alexander the Great, Cleopatra and the Mongol Empire to the Ottoman court, the conquest of Mexico, colonial India, shipwreck and twentieth-century Palestine. Most volumes can be…
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