Montezuma

A child is mourned with a funeral grander than her father’s—while Malinche is still alive, carried away into slavery.

In Painnalla, amid the temples and customs of the Aztec world, Hiram Hoyt Richmond’s nineteenth-century epic begins with a girl cheated of her inheritance by the family meant to protect her. Sold far from home, Malinche grows up in Tabasco until an old nurse recognizes her—and her buried past rises into view. Then a pale-faced chief and his strange, thunder-armed army appear at the river. The local ruler vows to bring Malinche’s wrongs before Moctheuzoma, sovereign of Tenochtitlan. Can her stolen birthright be reclaimed as the Conquest approaches?

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