Red Smoking Mirror

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Shortlisted for the 2024 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards

Viking Award for Fiction with a Sense of Place



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, assisted by his Nahua wife Malinala. 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...

A bravura reimagining of an alternate history, Red Smoking Mirror is a richly written novel of love and fate, of how cultures co-operate and clash, and of how individuals can shape and are shaped by the times they live through.
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Weight 0.000000
Author Hunt, Nick
Availability IP
Department Literature
Format Hardback
ISBN 9781800753211
Pages 288
Published 06/07/2023
Publisher Swift Press
Section Literature
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