Malinche

Weird and mystical, a fictional exploration of La Malinche. This book gave me so many fascinating views of history and life during the brutal Spanish invasion of Mexico (fictionalized and with liberties taken of course) and at the organization of Mexica and Maya groups at the time. It was easy to get lost (in both positive and negative ways) in some of the meandering prose, expositions of cosmology, and deep symbolism; it was also a very “internal” book based in protagonist Malinalli's thoughts and dreams rather than in scene.