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The Confessions of Anna MarÃa
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ISBN13: 9798393907471
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 7 2023
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 7 2023
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
COMPELLING!
A TRIUMPH OF HISTORICAL FICTION!
AN EPIC TOUR DE FORCE! You see, the future that the Mayan priests saw in the stars long before I arrived in Chunchumil was skewed in the sky's imperfect mirror. The chaos and destruction they foretold was intended not for the Maya alone as they had originally interpreted, but for Spain as well...for all of us. Like a comet in the black sky, my life flared and soared, as portent and disaster were dragged across the firmament. Now I fall through the vacuum of these endless cold and silent days, cursed for who I am. The Confessions of Anna MarÃa, the riveting ninth novel by Paul Koppisch, traces the tragic life of Anna MarÃa Santiago, the daughter of a wealthy merchant ship captain from Seville, Spain beginning in the year 1519 amidst the Age of Conquest in the New World. After setting out from Seville at the young age of thirteen, a passenger on her father's ship, Anna MarÃa is shipwrecked, eventually washing up on a beach in what is present day Yucatan, Mexico. Without water or food and near death, she reluctantly follows, and is later taken in by a strange and exotic people who eventually accept her as one of their own. However, her former countrymen, searching for gold in the Yucatan and bent on conquest under the guise of converting heathens to Christianity, could destroy everything she comes to hold dear in this new world. The Confessions of Anna Maria is a thrilling historical adventure set in the past, but the existential themes at the heart of Koppisch's novel-the rawness of life, the precious inner-workings of nature, the drive to continue on in the face of challenges-are as timely as they come.
A TRIUMPH OF HISTORICAL FICTION!
AN EPIC TOUR DE FORCE! You see, the future that the Mayan priests saw in the stars long before I arrived in Chunchumil was skewed in the sky's imperfect mirror. The chaos and destruction they foretold was intended not for the Maya alone as they had originally interpreted, but for Spain as well...for all of us. Like a comet in the black sky, my life flared and soared, as portent and disaster were dragged across the firmament. Now I fall through the vacuum of these endless cold and silent days, cursed for who I am. The Confessions of Anna MarÃa, the riveting ninth novel by Paul Koppisch, traces the tragic life of Anna MarÃa Santiago, the daughter of a wealthy merchant ship captain from Seville, Spain beginning in the year 1519 amidst the Age of Conquest in the New World. After setting out from Seville at the young age of thirteen, a passenger on her father's ship, Anna MarÃa is shipwrecked, eventually washing up on a beach in what is present day Yucatan, Mexico. Without water or food and near death, she reluctantly follows, and is later taken in by a strange and exotic people who eventually accept her as one of their own. However, her former countrymen, searching for gold in the Yucatan and bent on conquest under the guise of converting heathens to Christianity, could destroy everything she comes to hold dear in this new world. The Confessions of Anna Maria is a thrilling historical adventure set in the past, but the existential themes at the heart of Koppisch's novel-the rawness of life, the precious inner-workings of nature, the drive to continue on in the face of challenges-are as timely as they come.
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