Gods of jade and shadow / Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
Publication details: London : Jo Fletcher Books, 2019.Description: 336 pages ; 25 cmISBN:- 9781529402629 (paperback)
- 1910-1946
- Mythology, Mexican -- Fiction
- Maya gods -- Mexico -- Fiction
- Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction
- Mythological fiction
- Historical fiction
- FICTION / Fantasy / Historical
- FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
- Death (Personification)
- Fables, Mexican
- Maya gods
- Maya mythology
- Nineteen twenties
- Quests (Expeditions)
- Young women
- Fables, Mexican -- Fiction
- Young women -- Fiction
- Maya gods -- Fiction
- Maya mythology -- Fiction
- Nineteen twenties -- Fiction
- Death (Personification) -- Fiction
- Quests (Expeditions) -- Fiction
- Mexico -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- Mexico
- Mexico -- History -- 1910-1946 -- Fiction
- 813/.6 23
- PR9199.4.M656174 G63 2019
- FIC009030 | FIC010000
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Fantasy | MOR | Available | 069702 |
Includes glossary.
Simultaneously published in the United States by Del Rey, an imprint of Random House.
Here we shall begin to tell a story: a tale of a throne lost, of monsters and magic. A tale of gods and of the shadow realm. But this, our story, it begins in our world, in the land of mortals. It begins with a woman. For this story, it is her story. It begins with her. The Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is too busy cleaning the floors of her wealthy grandfather's house to listen to any fast tunes. Nevertheless, she dreams of a life far from her dusty, small town in southern Mexico. A life she can call her own. Yet this new life seems as distant as the stars, until the day she finds a curious wooden box in her grandfather's room. She opens it, and accidentally frees the spirit of the Mayan God of Death, who requests her help in recovering his throne from his treacherous brother. Failure will mean Casiopea's demise, but success could make her dreams come true. In the company of the strangely alluring god and armed only with her wits, Casiopea begins an adventure that will take her on a cross-country odyssey, from the jungles of Yucatan to the bright lights of Mexico City, and deep into the darkness of the Mayan underworld. Mixing the excitement of the Roaring Twenties with Prehispanic mythology, Gods of Jade and Shadow is a vivid, wildly imaginative historical fantasy.