Like Limón's two previous novels, In Search of Bernabe (LJ 8/93) and The Memories of Ana Calderon (LJ 8/94), this work explores the endurance of the human spirit in a world of political, social, and emotional violence. Hummingbird‘Huitzitzilin in her native Nahuatl language‘recounts her life story, 82 years that transcend the Spanish conquest of Mexico, "because I will soon die, and someone must know how it was that I and my people came to what we are now." Born an Aztec princess in the court of Montezuma, she ends her life in a convent. A bewildered young priest expects to hear her final confession but instead becomes engrossed in her tale, and, in so doing, is himself converted to some acceptance and sensibility of the freedom and passion of her indigenous culture. For public and academic libraries with an interest in Hispanic culture.‘Mary Margaret Benson, Linfield Coll. Lib., Mcminnville, Ore.
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