House of the Waterlily: A Novel of the Ancient Maya World

ISBN-13: 9781785335488 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 262 str.

Kelli Carmean

Opis

House of the Waterlily is a historical novel set in the world of the Late Classic Period Maya of the Southern Lowlands. Through the story of Lady Winik, a young Maya noble girl, the reader is immersed in the everyday world of the Maya

Set in the Maya civilization’s Late Classic Period House of the Waterlily is ahistorical novel centered on Lady Winik, a young Maya royal. Through tribulationsthat mirror the political calamities of the Late Classic world, Winik’s personal storyimmerses the reader not only in her daily life, but also in the difficult decisions Mayamen and women must have faced as they tried to navigate a rapidly changing world.Kelli Carmean’s novel brings to life a people and an era remote from our own, yetrecognizably human all the same.