You dreamed of empires / Álvaro Enrigue ; translated by Natasha Wimmer.
2024
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Tu sueño imperios han sido. English
Title
You dreamed of empires / Álvaro Enrigue ; translated by Natasha Wimmer.
Added Author
Wimmer, Natasha, translator.
Imprint
New York : Riverhead Books, 2024.
Copyright
©2024
Description
xiii, 222 pages ; 22 cm
Summary
"From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagines the fall of Tenochtitlan. One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernán Cortés entered the city of Tenochtitlan - today's Mexico City. Later that day, he would meet the emperor Moctezuma in a collision of two worlds, two empires, two languages, two possible futures. Cortés was accompanied by his nine captains, his troops, and his two translators: Friar Aguilar, a taciturn, former slave, and Malinalli, a strategic, former princess. Greeted at a ceremonial welcome meal by the steely princess Atotoxli, sister and wife of Moctezuma, the Spanish nearly bungle their entrance to the city. As they await their meeting with Moctezuma - who is at a political, spiritual, and physical crossroads, and relies on hallucinogens to get himself through the day and in quest for any kind of answer from the gods - the Spanish are ensconced in the labyrinthine palace. Soon, one of Cortés's captains, Jazmín Caldera, overwhelmed by the grandeur of the city, begins to question the ease with which they were welcomed into the city, and wonders at the risks of getting out alive, much less conquering the empire. You Dreamed of Empires brings to life Tenochtitlan at its height, and reimagines its destiny. The incomparably original Alvaro Enrigue sets afire the moment of conquest and turns it into a moment of revolution, a restitutive, fantastical counter-attack, in a novel so electric and so unique that it feels like a dream"-- Provided by publisher.
Note
First published in Spain as Tu sueño imperios han sido by Editorial Anagrama, Barcelona, in 2022.
Language Note
In English, translated from the Spanish.
Translation of
Translation of: Enrigue, Alvaro, 1969- Tu sueño imperios han sido. Primera edición. Barcelona : Editorial Anagrama, 2022
Available in Other Form
Online version: Enrigue, Álvaro, 1969- You dreamed of empires New York : Riverhead Books, 2024
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English
ISBN
9780593544792 hardcover
059354479X hardcover
9780593544815 electronic book
0593544811 electronic book
059354479X hardcover
9780593544815 electronic book
0593544811 electronic book
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