The Conquest2002
a novel
by Yxta Maya Murray
"A restorer of rare books and manuscripts, Sara Gonzales lives in a solitary world filled with dusty, broken books. A born reader, Sara is doing with her life just what she set out to do, even at the expense of true love.".
"When Sara is assigned to restore a banned and scandal-filled sixteenth-century book called The Conquest, she does not yet know that the story will consume her, intellectually and emotionally, causing her to reevaluate her own sense of history as well as to question the decisions that have brought her to where she now finds herself.".
"Reputed to have been written by a notorious Spanish monk, The Conquest recounts the fantastic sexual adventures of an Aztec princess enslaved by Cortes after his conquest of what is now modern-day Mexico. Sent to Europe so that she may...