Author: Alvaro Enrigue
Translator: Natasha Wimmer
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Hardback
One of our books of the year 2024!
Sam says: This novel, which reimagines the arrival of Cortes and his stinking band of maniacs into Tenoxtitlan at the heart of the Aztec empire, is a fantastically fun experiment in alterity. Told from the perspective of the Aztecs, including emperor Moctezuma, it attempts to reconstitute the subjectivity, and motives of these people on the cusp of great and terrible change. The result is a hallucinatory, sometimes visionary, account of the beginning of an alternate future.