The Dark Virgin
A Novel
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Canada
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2013
- Category
- Historical
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781443403641
- Publish Date
- Apr 2013
- List Price
- $11.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781443416443
- Publish Date
- Apr 2013
- List Price
- $14.99
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Description
In sixteenth-century Mexico, Pitoque is a reluctant spy for the Aztec ruler Montezuma, who is desperate to discover the truth about reports of strange, tall, odorous beings. Are these creatures the envoys of the man-god Quetzalcóatl? Pitoque can’t be sure—nor does he suspect how the arrival of Hernando Cortés, Spanish conquistador, will change the course of his country’s history forever.
About the author
OAKLAND ROSS is the author of the novel The Dark Virgin, the travel memoir A Fire on the Mountains, and Guerrilla Beach, a collection of short stories that was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award. He is a features writer for the Toronto Star and spent several years as the Star’s Middle East correspondent. He previously lived in Zimbabwe and Mexico City as The Globe and Mail’s Africa and Latin America correspondent. Ross is the winner of two National Newspaper Awards, a National Magazine Award for fiction and the Roland Michener Award for Meritorious Public Service in Journalism. He lives in Toronto.
