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100 1 $aMurray, Yxta Maya.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96092018
245 14 $aThe conquest :$ba novel /$cYxta Maya Murray.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bRayo,$c[2002], ©2002.
300 $a288 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"A restorer of rare books and manuscripts, Sara Gonzales lives in a solitary world filled with dusty, broken books. A born reader, Sara is doing with her life just what she set out to do, even at the expense of true love.".
520 8 $a"When Sara is assigned to restore a banned and scandal-filled sixteenth-century book called The Conquest, she does not yet know that the story will consume her, intellectually and emotionally, causing her to reevaluate her own sense of history as well as to question the decisions that have brought her to where she now finds herself.".
520 8 $a"Reputed to have been written by a notorious Spanish monk, The Conquest recounts the fantastic sexual adventures of an Aztec princess enslaved by Cortes after his conquest of what is now modern-day Mexico. Sent to Europe so that she may perform before the aristocracy, the princess soon becomes all the rage at court, an artist's muse, and a mortal danger to those who destroyed her world. Enthralled by the tale, Sara suspects that no monk wrote it, and she plunges into the mystery of the book's origin.".
520 8 $a"As Sara swims through the archives of the famed Getty Museum, the book captures more than just her curiosity. It becomes a cultural allegory of her own frustrated existence. In her own life, Sara has not resolved the conflicts of her broken family. While her father refuses to remember the past, she cannot forget her mother's untimely death. Sara's painful history then threatens her romance with the man she's always loved.
520 8 $aIt is The Conquest that leads Sara to an understanding of what she values most."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aManuscripts$xConservation and restoration$vFiction.
650 0 $aWomen museum curators$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113618
651 0 $aLos Angeles (Calif.)$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106612
650 0 $aAztec women$vFiction.
650 0 $aAuthorship$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117632
651 0 $aSpain$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117129
655 7 $aPsychological fiction.$2lcgft$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026492
655 7 $aLove stories.$2gsafd
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