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3 months agoBooks from Mexico, Netherlands, and Japan bring rewrites of history, teen tales
Reading books from different literary traditions in translation allows for new connections and insights.
Alvaro Enrigue's latest novel, You Dreamed of Empires, is a counterfactual history of Hernan Cortes' arrival in Moctezuma's court, with a focus on political maneuvering and drug use. [ more ]