Description
A kaleidoscopic, postmodern adventure unfolds across centuries, where a seemingly impossible tennis match becomes the hinge for empires, faiths, and ideas colliding. In sixteenth-century Rome, radical art and sharp-tongued poetry face off amid a cast of historical icons, while parallel threads in England and the New World echo the same struggle for power, meaning, and narrative control. As executions, conspiracies, and cultural upheavals ripple outward—from courtly intrigue to conquest and colonial reinvention—the novel asks what history is made of: stories, symbols, and the violent transformations they enable. With Álvaro Enrigue’s daring, mind-bending style—erudite, bawdy, and emotionally charged—this sprawling “archive and oracle” turns the dawn of the modern era into a high-stakes game of fate, interpretation, and sudden consequence.
Available Editions
paperback
Riverhead Books
Published Feb 9, 2016
267 pages
ISBN: 9780698179035
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Details
First Published
2016
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue.