{"product_id":"books-red-smoking-mirror-by-nick-hunt","title":"Red Smoking Mirror","description":"‘With Red Smoking Mirror, Nick Hunt has created the love child of JG Ballard and Ursula K Le Guin’ - Joanna Pocock, author of Surrender   Shortlisted in the 2024 Edward Stanford Awards for the Viking Award for Fiction with a Sense of Place        ‘A beautifully written evocation of a world that never was’ - Guardian        The year is 1521 in the Mexica city of Tenochtitlan. Twenty-nine years earlier, Islamic Spain never fell to the Christians, and Andalus launched a voyage of discovery to the New Maghreb.        For two decades the Jewish merchant Eli Ben Abram, who led the first ships across the sea, has maintained a delicate peace in the Moorish enclave of Moctezuma’s breathtaking capital. But the emperor has been acting strangely, sacrifices are increasing at the temples, a mysterious sickness is spreading through the city, and there are rumours of a hostile army crossing the sea…        ‘Highly original’ - Irish Times","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53674302243089,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781800753235.jpg?v=1781530890","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-red-smoking-mirror-by-nick-hunt","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}