by László Passuth · Austral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788494165979
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«El dios de la lluvia llora sobre México» is the historical novel by László Passuth, published by Austral in paperback (720 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Hernán Cortés and his five hundred soldiers on their expedition to the Aztec Empire, recreating the conquest of Mexico and the fall of Tenochtitlan. Passuth weaves together contemporary chronicles, archaeological data, and the historical landscape to show the encounter between Spaniards and Mexicans and the consequences of the clash between the two cultures.
Originally written in Hungarian, this Spanish edition features a translation by Judith Xantus and is published in the Contemporánea collection.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction interested in the conquest of the Americas and the encounter between the European and Mesoamerican worlds.
László Passuth was a prolific Hungarian author of historical novels and translator. He is the father of art historian, Krisztina Passuth.
