You Dreamed of Empires

Alvaro Enrigue was born in Mexico and lives in New York City. He is a literature professor at Hofstra University. Sudden Death - his first novel to be translated into English - was awarded the prestigious Herralde Prize in Spain, the Elena Poniatowska International Novel Award in Mexico, and the Barcelona Prize for Fiction.>

About the author

Álvaro Enrigue is a prize-winning Mexican writer whose most recent novel is You Dreamed of Empires. His work has appeared in The New York Times, the London Review of Books, El País, and n+1, among other publications. A former Fellow at the Cullman Center and at Princeton University, he teaches Latin American Literature at Hofstra University and lives with his family in New York City.

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Product details

• Authors: 193 Enrigue, Alvaro Enrigue, Álvaro Enrigue, lvaro
• Assisted by: Natasha Wimmer (Translation), Wimmer Natasha (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.01.2025
• EAN: 9781529920659
• ISBN: 978-1-5299-2065-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 8 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Mexico, FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Alternative History, Fiction in translation, Alternative history fiction, FICTION / World Literature / Mexico, Early 16th century c 1500 to c 1550, Aztec Empire / Aztec civilisation