Red Smoking Mirror
Autor: | Nick Hunt |
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EAN: | 9781800753228 |
eBook Format: | ePUB |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Produktart: | eBook |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 06.07.2023 |
Untertitel: | 'The love child of JG Ballard and Ursula K Le Guin' Joanna Pocock |
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Schlagworte: | 1492 Aztec Camilla Townsend Columbus Cortes Fifth Sun Mexico Moctezuma Montezuma conquistador |
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xe2x80x98Withxc2xa0Red Smoking Mirror, Nick Hunt has created the love child of JG Ballard and Ursula K Le Guinxe2x80x99 - Joanna Pocock, author ofxc2xa0Surrender The year is 1521 in the Mexica city of Tenochtitlan. Twenty-nine years earlier, Islamic Spain never fell to the Christians, and Andalus launched a voyage of discovery to the New Maghreb. For two decades the Jewish merchant Eli Ben Abram, who led the first ships across the sea, has maintained a delicate peace in the Moorish enclave of Moctezumaxe2x80x99s breathtaking capital, assisted by his Nahua wife Malinala. But the emperor has been acting strangely, sacrifices are increasing at the temples, a mysterious sickness is spreading through the city, and there are rumours of a hostile army crossing the seaxe2x80xa6 A bravura reimagining of an alternate history,xc2xa0Red Smoking Mirrorxc2xa0is a richly written novel of love and fate, of how cultures co-operate and clash, and of how individuals can shape and are shaped by the times they live through.
Nick Hunt has written a trilogy of books about walking in Europe - Outlandish, Where the Wild Winds Are and Walking the Woods and the Water - two of which were shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year. His articles have appeared in the Guardian, Emergence, Resurgence & Ecologist, New Internationalist, Geographical ?and numerous other publications, and he works as co-director for the Dark Mountain Project. Red Smoking Mirror is his first novel.
Nick Hunt has written a trilogy of books about walking in Europe - Outlandish, Where the Wild Winds Are and Walking the Woods and the Water - two of which were shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year. His articles have appeared in the Guardian, Emergence, Resurgence & Ecologist, New Internationalist, Geographical ?and numerous other publications, and he works as co-director for the Dark Mountain Project. Red Smoking Mirror is his first novel.