Red Smoking Mirror
'The love child of JG Ballard and Ursula K Le Guin’ Joanna Pocock
Seiten
2023
Swift Press (Verlag)
978-1-80075-321-1 (ISBN)
Swift Press (Verlag)
978-1-80075-321-1 (ISBN)
‘With Red Smoking Mirror, Nick Hunt has created the love child of JG Ballard and Ursula K Le Guin’ - Joanna Pocock, author of Surrender
Shortlisted in the 2024 Edward Stanford Awards for the Viking Award for Fiction with a Sense of Place
‘A beautifully written evocation of a world that never was’ - Guardian
The year is 1521 in the Mexica city of Tenochtitlan. Twenty-nine years earlier, Islamic Spain never fell to the Christians, and Andalus launched a voyage of discovery to the New Maghreb.
For two decades the Jewish merchant Eli Ben Abram, who led the first ships across the sea, has maintained a delicate peace in the Moorish enclave of Moctezuma’s breathtaking capital. But the emperor has been acting strangely, sacrifices are increasing at the temples, a mysterious sickness is spreading through the city, and there are rumours of a hostile army crossing the sea…
‘Highly original’ - Irish Times
Shortlisted in the 2024 Edward Stanford Awards for the Viking Award for Fiction with a Sense of Place
‘A beautifully written evocation of a world that never was’ - Guardian
The year is 1521 in the Mexica city of Tenochtitlan. Twenty-nine years earlier, Islamic Spain never fell to the Christians, and Andalus launched a voyage of discovery to the New Maghreb.
For two decades the Jewish merchant Eli Ben Abram, who led the first ships across the sea, has maintained a delicate peace in the Moorish enclave of Moctezuma’s breathtaking capital. But the emperor has been acting strangely, sacrifices are increasing at the temples, a mysterious sickness is spreading through the city, and there are rumours of a hostile army crossing the sea…
‘Highly original’ - Irish Times
Nick Hunt has written a trilogy of books about walking in Europe - Outlandish, Where the Wild Winds Are and Walking the Woods and the Water - two of which were shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year. His articles have appeared in the Guardian, Emergence, Resurgence & Ecologist, New Internationalist, Geographical and numerous other publications, and he works as co-director for the Dark Mountain Project. Red Smoking Mirror is his first novel.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.07.2023 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 135 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Historische Romane |
| ISBN-10 | 1-80075-321-7 / 1800753217 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-80075-321-1 / 9781800753211 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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