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You Dreamed of Empires : A Novel

Name: You Dreamed of Empires : A Novel
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ISBN: 9780593544815

Álvaro Enrigue; Natasha Wimmer

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From the visionary author of Sudden Death , a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story. 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...

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Year:

2022

Publisher:

Penguin Publishing Group

Language:

English

ISBN 10:

0593544811

ISBN 13:

9780593544815