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Book SynopsisÁlvaro Enrigue (Author) Álvaro Enrigue is a prize-winning Mexican writer whose most recent novel is
You Dreamed of Empires. His work has appeared in
The New York Times, the
London Review of Books,
El País, and
n+1, among other publications. A former Fellow at the Cullman Center and at Princeton University, he teaches Latin American Literature at Hofstra University and lives with his family in New York City.
Natasha Wimmer (Translator) Natasha Wimmer's translations include Álvaro Enrigue's
You Dreamed of Empires and
Sudden Death and Roberto Bolaño's
The Savage Detectives and
2666. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.
Trade ReviewA complex historical pageant of astonishing richness * Guardian, Best Books of 2016 *
Engaging, audacious, and flat-out fun...
Sudden Death marks the arrival of a major player on the capital-
L courts of literature * Vice *
Intellectually formidable… Enrigue is a cerebral and sanguine Spanish-Language postmodernist… It takes literary bravery to be this candid as a writer * New Statesman *
Dazzlingly clever and thrillingly original * Mail on Sunday *
Exhilarating, funny, and surprisingly sexy... Enrigue turns historical figures into real, flesh-and-blood people and really gets you thinking about art and history: what qualifies as either — and why * Buzzfeed *
Brilliant... Enrigue has crafted a tennis allegory for the modern age: a heady, raucous meditation on chaos, power, language and the ways in which history is created and preserved... Enrigue blends historical elements with fantasy to conjure a light, knowing and very funny history in which the present is always lurking beneath the surface... Enrigue's prose is endlessly inventive, full of aphorisms, wry anecdotes and swaggering declarations. * Financial Times *
