Aztec: The retelling of the Aztec civilization as it was

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Aztec by Gary Jennings speaks to us of the Aztec civilization. Mixtli-Dark Cloud, a near-blind elderly man who speaks Spanish, is summoned to the colonizers’ palace to share memories of his decimated civilization to priests who have been assigned to make a record of the nation they destroyed. With great detail and often tongue-in-cheek, he retells the glory of the Aztec civilization before its decline with the arrival of Hernan Cortez. This monolith of a book is heavily researched, so expect intricate details into every aspect of Aztec life: From naming children, to the understanding of their calendar, to the splendor of the city of Tenochtitlan, that had been reduced to ruins by the time our narrator shares his memory of it.