Bestselling author of Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel returns with Malinche, an extraordinary retelling of the passionate and tragic love affair during the conquest of the Aztecs between the conquistador Cortez and his Indian interpreter Malinalli.
When Malinalli, a member of the tribe conquered by the Aztec warriors, first meets the conquistador HernΓ‘n CortΓ©s and becomes his interpreter, sheβlike manyβbelieves him to be the reincarnated forefather god of her tribe. Naturally, she assumes she must welcome him, and help him destroy the Aztec empire and free her people. The two fall passionately in love, but Malinalli soon realizes that CortΓ©s's thirst for conquest is all too human, and that he is willing to destroy anyone, even his own menβand even their own love.
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