Author: SOMERLOTT, ROBERT
Title: Death of the Fifth Sun
Description: London, Hutchinson. 1987, First Edition. (ISBN: 009173441x). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK edition. A Fine unmarked copy in a VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. An historical novel set in Aztec Mexico, of Malinche, sold into prostitution by her mother, she learned quickly about the world, but nothing could have prepared her for the arrival of the Plumed Serpent - Cortes, the conquistador, destroyer of the centuries' old pagan Aztec order and creator of an equally bloody New World. Malinche would become Cortes's interpreter, his confidante, his lover, and would even fight beside him in battle. She would live to be cursed by her own people but Malinche, the Indian, would share a passionate destiny, where an empire was won with sword, gun, horse and implacable ruthless ambition. 13. Fine/Very Good.

Keywords: Historical Fiction, Aztec, Mexico, Malinche, Cortes, Plumed Serpent, Conquistador 009173441x


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