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The conquest

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An edition of The Conquest (2002)

The conquest

a novel

1st ed.
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"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 perform before the aristocracy, the princess soon becomes all the rage at court, an artist's muse, and a mortal danger to those who destroyed her world. Enthralled by the tale, Sara suspects that no monk wrote it, and she plunges into the mystery of the book's origin.".

"As Sara swims through the archives of the famed Getty Museum, the book captures more than just her curiosity. It becomes a cultural allegory of her own frustrated existence. In her own life, Sara has not resolved the conflicts of her broken family. While her father refuses to remember the past, she cannot forget her mother's untimely death. Sara's painful history then threatens her romance with the man she's always loved.

It is The Conquest that leads Sara to an understanding of what she values most."--BOOK JACKET.

Publish Date
Publisher
Rayo
Language
English
Pages
288

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Cover of: Conquest
Conquest
2010, HarperCollins Publishers
in English
Cover of: The Conquest
The Conquest
December 1, 2003, Harper Paperbacks
in English
Cover of: La conquista
La conquista: una novela
2003, Rayo
in Spanish - 1. ed.
Cover of: The Conquest
The Conquest
December 1, 2003, Harper Paperbacks
Paperback in English
Cover of: The conquest
The conquest: a novel
2002, Rayo
in English - 1st ed.

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New York

Edition Notes

Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3563.U832 C66 2002, PS3563.U832C66 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination
288 p. ;
Number of pages
288

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3568867M
Internet Archive
conquestnovel00murr
ISBN 10
0060093595
LCCN
2002069757
OCLC/WorldCat
49773771
Library Thing
220939
Goodreads
2107449

First Sentence

"The museum is dark tonight."

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