Sudden Death
by Álvaro Enrigue
Caravaggio vs. Hernán Cortés. Tennis. 1599.
you want history to be as strange and funny as it actually was
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A tennis match between the painter Caravaggio and the conquistador Hernán Cortés, played with a ball made from the hair of Anne Boleyn. Completely insane. Also a serious meditation on the conquest of Mexico, the nature of violence, and what European civilization actually was when it arrived in the Americas. Enrigue makes you laugh and then makes you think and the two things happen simultaneously. History as it should always be told.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Mexico • Latin America
- Voice
- Written by a Mexican author
- Themes
- Beautiful Wreckage
