Gary Jennings/aztec
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...Aztec has an epistolary structure, that is, the story is told in the form of letters, with the bulk of the novel being a long report from Don Juan, the "Bishop of Mexico, Protector of the Indians, and Apostolic Inquisitor" (4), to the Spanish monarch. The reports concerns the charge given to Don Juan to report on the native people of Mexico, their "country's history, their governments, their traditions, their customs," etc. (1). Finding an informant capable of fulfilling this mission is difficult, due to the fact Cortes has destroyed the city and killed most of its inhabitants (4). However, a 60-year-old man, an Aztec, is located. This man has been a scribe, a warrior, a courier, a traveling merchant, "even a sort of emissary from the late rulers of this place to the first arriving Castilian liberators" (5). it is revealed later in the novel that his name is Mixtli (54).
In revealing his life story, Mixtli offers the Spanish and the novel's readers an insider's view of...
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