You Dreamed of Empires
Book description
"Enrigue’s genius lies in his ability to bring readers close to its tangled knot of priests, mercenaries, warriors and princesses while adding a pinch of biting humor." --Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Los Angeles Times
“Riotously entertaining... A triumph of solemnity-busting erudition and mischievous invention that will delight and titillate.” --Financial Times
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Why read it?
1 author picked You Dreamed of Empires as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I was enthralled by this book because it seems to pull off the impossible: it feels historically accurate and utterly alien, yet it’s perfectly clear what is happening most of the time – there’s at least one hallucinatory passage that deliriously rattled my brain. It is rich in description yet never plods. It chronicles the sometimes-bumbling trek of Hernan Cortes and his Spanish Conquistadores to the center of the Aztec Empire in 1521. What follows are a clash of cultures, a sharing of knowledge and a struggle for power amid hilarious misunderstandings and multiple tragedies. Authentic yet irreverent, poetic yet…