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Sudden death / Álvaro Enrigue ; translated by Natasha Wimmer.

by Enrigue, Alvaro, 1969-

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Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2016.

Muerte súbita. English.

261 p. ; 22 cm.

"First published in Spain in 2013 by Anagrama, as Muerte súbita."--T.p. verso.

Translated from the Spanish.

"A daring, kaleidoscopic novel about the clash of empires and ideas, told through a tennis match in the sixteenth century between the radical Italian artist Caravaggio and the Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo, played with a ball made from the hair of the beheaded Anne Boleyn. The poet and the painter battle it out in Rome before a crowd that includes Galileo, Mary Magdalene, and a generation of popes who would throw the world into flames. In England, Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII execute Anne Boleyn, and her crafty executioner transforms her legendary locks into those most-sought-after tennis balls. Across the ocean in Mexico, the last Aztec emperors play their own games, as the conquistador Hernan Cortes and his Mayan translator and lover, La Malinche, scheme and conquer, fight and f**k, not knowing that their domestic comedy will change the course of history. In a remote Mexican colony a bishop reads Thomas More's 'Utopia' and thinks that it s a manual instead of a parody. And in today s New York City, a man searches for answers to impossible questions, for a book that is both an archive and an oracle. Alvaro Enrigue s mind-bending story features assassinations and executions, hallucinogenic mushrooms, bawdy criminals, carnal liaisons and papal schemes, artistic and religious revolutions, love and war. A blazingly original voice and a postmodern visionary, Enrigue tells the grand adventure of the dawn of the modern era, breaking down traditions and upending expectations, in this bold, powerful gut-punch of a novel. Game, set, match."--From publisher.

Historical fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Literary fiction.

Spanish fiction -- Translations into English.

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