Popol Vuh: A Retelling by Ilan Stavans, Illustrated by Gabriela Larios

Illustrated by Gabriela Larios Foreword by Homero Aridjis An inspired and urgent prose retelling of the Maya myth of creation by acclaimed Latin American author and scholar Ilan Stavans. This intimate hardcover volume, 6 x 6" is gorgeously illustrated by Salvadoran folk artist Gabriela Larios with an introduction by renowned author, diplomat, and environmental activist Homero Aridjis. The archetypal creation story of Latin America, the Popol Vuh began as a Maya oral tradition millennia ago. In the mid-sixteenth century, as indigenous cultures across the continent were being threatened with destruction by European conquest and Christianity, it was written down in verse by members of the K’iche’ nobility in what is today Guatemala. In 1701, that text was translated into Spanish by a Dominican friar and ethnographer before vanishing mysteriously. Cosmic in scope and yet intimately human, the Popol Vuh offers invaluable insight into the Maya way of life before being decimated by colonizat