Red Smoking Mirror
| Författare | |
|---|---|
| Förlag | Faber & Faber |
| Genre | Utländska berättare |
| Format | |
| Språk | Engelska |
| Antal sidor | 288 |
| Vikt | 0 |
| Utgiven | 2024-06-06 |
| ISBN | 9781800753235 |
<strong>'With <em>Red Smoking Mirror</em>, Nick Hunt has created the love child of JG Ballard and Ursula K Le Guin' - Joanna Pocock, author of <em>Surrender</em></strong>
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 Moctezuma's 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 sea...
A bravura reimagining of an alternate history, <em>Red Smoking Mirror </em>is 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.
