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Serpiente Emplumada, Corazón del Cielo / Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of the Sky
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Serpiente Emplumada, Corazón del Cielo / Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of the Sky - Paperback

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by David Bowles (Author)

"Bowles, un maestro contador de historias, condensa en cada frase la riqueza cosmol gica de Mesoam rica y trae a la vida personajes ancestrales que son al tiempo divertidos, desgarradores, encantadores, grotescos y venerables... Acad micos y amantes de la mitolog a y el folclore: a adan este libro a los cl sicos" -World Literature Today

David Bowles teje la fragmentada mitolog a del M xico precolombino en una narraci n emocionante y homog nea que sigue la tradici n del Ramayana de William Buck, de la Il ada de Robert Fagles y de los Mitos n rdicos de Neil Gaiman.

Las leyendas mitol gicas reunidas en Serpiente emplumada, coraz n del cielo trazan la historia del mundo desde sus inicios en los sue os del dios dual, Ometeotl, hasta la llegada de los conquistadores espa oles a M xico y la ca da de la gran ciudad Tenochtitl n. En el transcurso de esta historia sabremos de los H roes Gemelos, la Serpiente Emplumada y el Coraz n del Cielo, y de c mo construyeron el mundo sobre la espalda de un leviat n; del nahualli que cambia de forma; y de los aluxes, aquellos seres con forma de elfos conocidos por ayudar a los vagabundos. Y finalmente, hallaremos cuentos aztecas sobre la llegada de los extranjeros barbudos provenientes del otro lado del mar, que buscan aniquilar el gobierno de Montezuma y destruir las historias que estamos leyendo.

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Kirkus Reviews' Best YA Books of 2018 That Feed Imaginations2018 Texas Institute of Letters Award for Best Young Adult Book

A contemporary retelling of the origin myths of Mexico, crafter as a single cohesive narrative.
The stories in Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky trace the history of the world from its beginnings in the dreams of the dual god Ometeotl, to the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors in Mexico and the fall of the great city Tenochtitlan. In the course of that history we learn about the Creator Twins, Feathered Serpent, and Dark Heart of Sky, and how they built the world on a leviathan's back; of the shape-shifting nahualli; and the aluxes--elfish beings known to help out the occasional wanderer. And finally, we read Aztec tales about the arrival of the blonde strangers from across the sea, the strangers who seek to upend the rule of Motecuhzoma and destroy the very stories we are reading.
David Bowles stitches together the fragmented mythology of pre-Colombian Mexico into an exciting, unified narrative in the tradition of William Buck s Ramayana, Robert Fagles' Iliad, and Neil Gaiman's Norse Myths. Readers of Norse and Greek mythologies will delight in this rich retelling of stories less explored.
Legends and myths captured David Bowles' imagination as a young Latino reader. He was fascinated with epics like the Iliad and the Odyssey. Despite growing up on the United States/Mexico border, he had never read a single Aztec or Mayan myth until he was in college. This experience inspired him to reconnect with that forgotten past. Several of his previous books have incorporated themes from ancient Mexican myths.

Author Biography

Producto de una familia mexicoamericana, David Bowles vivió la mayor parte de su vida en el sur de Texas, donde actualmente enseña en la Universidad de Texas. Ha escrito varios libros, incluyendo They Call Me Güero, que es un libro de honor del premio Pura Belpré y del premio Walter, entre varios otros. Su libro The Smoking Mirror también fue un libro de honor de premio Pura Belpré.

Number of Pages: 336
Dimensions: 1 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN
Publication Date: May 12, 2020

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