Sudden Death

Name: Sudden Death
Rating: 3.5 (9 reviews)

ISBN-10: 0099598051
ISBN-13: 9780099598053
Series: Sudden Death
Category: Tennis stories
Pages: 256
Language: English
Published: 2017-04-13
Publisher: Arrow
Author: Álvaro Enrigue

Description

'Glorious' New York Times'Endlessly inventive',Guardian, Best Books of 2016'Wildly funny' Lauren Groff, author of Fates and FuriesAs Caravaggio, the libertine of Italy's art world, and the loutish Spanish poet Quevedo aim to settle scores over the course of one brutal tennis match, the old European order edges closer to eruption.Across the ocean, in early sixteenth-century Mexico, the Aztec Empire is under the fatal grip of Hernan Cortes and his Mayan lover. While they scheme and conquer, fight and fuck, their domestic comedy will change the course of history, throwing the world - and Rome's tennis match - into a mind-bending reverie of assassinations, executions, papal dramas, carnal liaisons and artistic revolution.Translated by Natasha Wimmer, the prize-winning translator of Roberto Bolano's The SavageDetectivesand 2666.