Malinche
by Laura Esquivel
History's most complicated woman gets her own voice.
you want to understand the conquest of Mexico through the woman who made it possible and has been blamed for it ever since
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La Malinche — Nahuatl name Malintzin, baptized Marina — was the Indigenous woman who translated for Hernán Cortés and became his interpreter, advisor, and lover. For five centuries Mexico has called her a traitor. Esquivel gives her the interior life history denied her — a girl sold into slavery, navigating an impossible situation, making choices that shaped the entire hemisphere. The most important Mexican woman almost nobody has tried to understand.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Mexico • Latin America
- Voice
- Written by a Mexican author
- Themes
- True Cost of Empire
