Skull Rack: A Novel of the Conquest of Mexico - Brossura

Braithwaite, Ron

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1891799770 ISBN 13: 9781891799778

Casa editrice: Harbor House, 2007

Riassunto

Enter the world of Rodrigo de la Peņa who is orphaned by the Inquisition but survives to join Spanish mercenaries in the interminable wars in Italy. Intrigued by talk of land and glory in the Indies, he abandons the girl he has impregnated and travels to Castile, where, in an act of premeditated revenge, he visits retribution on those who years earlier betrayed his family. Then he escapes to Cuba and joins Hernan Cortes in an expedition to the newly discovered Mexico. The rest of the story is the fabulous, incredible, sometimes ridiculous Conquest of Mexico, in which fewer than five hundred renegades assault an empire with over 250,000 men under arms for more than two years with a result of defeat and victory, betrayal and greed, brutality and stupidity, human sacrifice and cannibalism. Rodrigo de la Peņa is there for all of it, and then is accused of treason by Cortes. So de la Peņa is forced to join the Mexican enemy and participates in the final battles on the Mexica side. Skull Rack actually begins in 1581, sixty years after the fall of Tenochtitlan. De la Peņa has become Inquisitor-General of Spain and Bishop of Mother Church; he has systematically insinuated himself into the fabric of the Holy Office to subvert and corrupt it. De la Pena has arrested an Inquisitor, the Jesuit scholar and priest Enrique Mendoza, who has written a book, Las Historias Glorias, on the glorious Conquest of Mexico. Under threat of death, Mendoza rewrites his book to de la Pena's specifications. Skull Rack is the story of the rewriting of Mendoza's history and the interactions of these two supposed men of God. The story of Skull Rack continues with its sequel, Hummingbird God.

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• Editore: Harbor House
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1891799770
• ISBN 13: 9781891799778
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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