by Salvador de Madariaga · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788422635598
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«El corazón de piedra verde» is the historical novel by Salvador de Madariaga, published by Círculo de Lectores in paperback (553 pages, in Spanish).
The novel recounts the encounter between the Spanish conquistadors and the Aztec empire during the conquest of Mexico, centred on Moctezuma's court and Hernán Cortés's expedition. It alternates between the Spanish and indigenous perspectives to show the clash of two worlds, with characters such as Cuauhtémoc and Bernal Díaz.
The novel was originally published in 1942; this Spanish-language edition is from 1992, published by Círculo de Lectores.
For readers of historical fiction and classic Spanish narrative, with an interest in the conquest of Mexico and the encounter between cultures.
Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo was a Spanish "eminent liberal", diplomat, writer, historian and pacifist who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Nobel Peace Prize and awarded the Charlemagne Prize in 1973.
