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House of the Waterlily

House of the Waterlily

House of the Waterlily

Kelli Carmean

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Editorial:
Berghahn Books
Año de edición:
2017
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Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9781785335488

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Set in the Maya civilization’s Late Classic Period House of the Waterlily is ahistorical novel centered on Lady Winik, a young Maya royal. Through tribulationsthat mirror the political calamities of the Late Classic world, Winik’s personal storyimmerses the reader not only in her daily life, but also in the difficult decisions Mayamen and women must have faced as they tried to navigate a rapidly changing world.Kelli Carmean’s novel brings to life a people and an era remote from our own, yetrecognizably human all the same.

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