Joplin Globe: Jason Sullivan: 'You Dreamed of Empires' reimagines collision of Cortes, Moctezuma
WAMC: The 1A Book Club returns with 'You Dreamed of Empires' by Álvaro Enrigue
‘You Dreamed of Empires’ is the latest book from Mexican author Álvaro Enrigue, translated into English by Natasha Wimmer. It’s a retelling of the colonial conquest of Mexico City and the clashing of ...
The 1A Book Club returns with 'You Dreamed of Empires' by Álvaro Enrigue
You Dreamed of Empires, by Álvaro Enrigue, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer (Riverhead). This incantatory novel takes place in 1519, on the day when Hernán Cortés and his conquistadors ...
Sometimes you don’t know just how much you don’t know. I came to that realization while reading “You Dreamed of Empires,” Álvaro Enrigue’s excellent new novel (translated by Natasha Wimmer) about the ...
WLRN: The 1A Book Club reads ‘You Dreamed of Empires’ by Álvaro Enrigue
For this edition of the book club, we got into “You Dreamed of Empires” by Mexican author Álvaro Enrigue, translated into English by Natasha Wimmer. It’s the story of the colonial conquest of Mexico ...
The 1A Book Club reads ‘You Dreamed of Empires’ by Álvaro Enrigue
Álvaro Enrigue’s “You Dreamed of Empires” is a hallucinatory tale of the conquistadors’ arrival at Moctezuma’s gates. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site ...
You Dreamed of Empires sets the scene for a violent historical encounter: the war between the Spanish and Aztec empires. But in a fictionalization of Hernán Cortés' arrival in the city of Tenochtitlan ...
Restaging the meeting between Moctezuma and Hernán Cortés, Álvaro Enrigue’s You Dreamed of Empires explores how little we still know about this moment in history. Clockwise from the left: An engraving ...