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Now You Read You Dreamed of Empires
Author : Álvaro Enrigue Pages : 240 pages
Publisher : Riverhead Language : eng ISBN-10 : 127938747 ISBN-13 : 9780593544792
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From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagines the fall of Tenochtitlan.One morning in 1519, conquistador Hern?n Cort?s 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.Cort?s 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 Cort?s?s captains, Jazm?n
