Margaret McGavin

Nothing but Flowers and Songs of Sorrow Margaret McGavin

At the beginning of the 16th century on the southeast coast of Mexico two universes collided, changing forever the identity of the inhabitants of the Aztec empire. 15-year-old Ixtaca, a Mexica noblewoman, tells her story of the Spanish conquest, a tragedy of genocidal proportions. The priest Salvador, sent to evangelize the "indios", has a different version. In this novel about the encounter between alien worlds, everybody loses their personal cosmos and emerges into a landscape full of contradictions.