by Ignacio Solares · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789681902292
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«Nen, la inútil» is the novel by Ignacio Solares, published by Alfaguara in paperback (137 pages, in Spanish).
Nen, a young woman able to see the future, is a tlachtopaitoani who foresees the arrival of the teules. Separated from her family, she is taken to the palace of Emperor Moctezuma in Tenochtitlán, where doctors and sorcerers study her visions. The story is framed by the encounter between the Aztec world and the Christianity brought by the Spaniards.
The novel was originally published in 1994; the ISBN-10 of this edition is 9681902297.
For those seeking a short novel about spirituality, clairvoyance, and the clash between Aztec culture and Christian religiosity.
Ignacio Solares Bernal was a Mexican novelist, editor and playwright, whose novel La invasión was a bestseller in Mexico and Spain. Until 2005 he served as the Coordinator of Cultural Activities for Literature and Arts at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM); he was a faculty member there and directed the cultural magazine Revista de la Universidad de México. He formerly served as director of the Department of Theater and Dance and the Division of Literature at UNAM. He also edited the cultural supplement to the weekly magazine Siempre!.
