Description
In this sharply imagined counterfactual, the Americas remain uncolonized by Europeans—and history tilts on a single, consequential discovery. When Erik the Red’s daughter finds a different path to the New World and Columbus never reaches it, the balance of power shifts: empires rise in the Americas, and their influence eventually reaches across the Atlantic. Laurent Binet’s novel follows the “how” of historical change with detective-like precision, tracing the year-to-year decisions, frictions, and momentum that make one world replace another. Blending alternate-history spectacle with a close, almost procedural attention to politics, culture, and empire, it asks what we mean by progress—and who gets to write the story of civilization.
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paperback
Grasset
Published Aug 14, 2019
384 pages
ISBN: 9782246813095
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First Published
2020
Language
fra
Translation
From: fra
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