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You dreamed of empires
Audience Adults
Published 2024 by Riverhead Books, New York
ISBN 9780593544792
Bib Id 1252106
Description xiii, 222 pages ; 22 cm
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cam a22 8i 4500
LCCN
2023-022064
ISBN
9780593544792 (hardcover) $28.00
059354479X
Language
eng
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FIC Enrigue
Uniform Title
Tu sueño imperios han sido. English
Title
You dreamed of empires
Publication Information
2024 by Riverhead Books, New York :
©2023
Description
xiii, 222 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
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"--
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Alternative histories (Fiction).
Historical fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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