THE historical novel par excellence. "Azteca" had all the dicey bet: recount several hundred pages of history of the Aztec empire. Gary Jennings is doing wonderfully, a beautiful story, both epic and intimate, in which erudition blends with style and a sense of intrigue in every way remarkable view. The "splendid isolation" from the "Mexican Venice" to dirty tricks of the Aztec monarchy, sexual mores of Central America to the manipulations of Hernan Cortes, the development of a civilization in its bloody collapse, everything goes under the eyes of a narrator both eloquent and lucid, funny and pathetic. Sometimes cruel, often shocking, always exciting, "Azteca" is a success story, literary and historical. What perfectly become unbeatable on the pre-Columbian era.
