Álvaro Enrigue
Autor(a) de Sudden Death
About the Author
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Obras por Álvaro Enrigue
Valiente clase media: Dinero, letras y cursilería (Argumentos) (Spanish Edition) (2013) 4 exemplares
Associated Works
McSweeney's Issue 42 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Multiples (2013) — Translator/Contributor — 62 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Enrigue, Álvaro
- Nome legal
- Enrigue Soler, Álvaro
- Data de nascimento
- 1969-08-06
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Mexico
- Local de nascimento
- Guadalajara, Mexico
- Locais de residência
- Hamilton Heights, New York, New York, USA
- Ocupações
- author
- Relações
- Luiselli, Valeria (wife)
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Rockefeller Foundation Grant in Writing (2009)
Membros
Críticas
Hypothermia por Alvaro Enrigue
Going to have to give this one up. The title is apt; there's something cold about the stories I did get through, and I want and need to move on to other things.
This would be a choice for the end of the year once it’s out in paperback. I heard the interview with the author on an NPR showthat was followed by discussion . Historical novel set in 1519 in what is now Mexico City. The clash between Aztec civilization and the Spanish conquistadors is richly detailed narrative by an award winning Mexican writer. 240 pp. Luba
The sort of post-modern historical novel that leads you to google the layout and rules of Renaissance era tennis courts and that makes Papal intrigues of the Counter-Reformation and the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire less interesting than they should be, while the author pops in to say "Hi, I have no idea what this is all about, and do you want to see a banal email exchange I had with my publisher?"
As a lover of historical fiction to was anxious to read this especially since it told a story much different than much of the European history. I can say I was easily pulled into the story in spite of the many many strange words and especially names. The author does a great job of imagining the setting - the colors, the smells (many and mostly offensive), the sounds.
The story is told from the viewpoint of a member of Cortez' army - a man who has helped finance the expedition first to explore and then later to colonize. There are two interpreters: a former priest and a young woman who becomes Cortez whore (maybe the word). Then it gets just plain weird - all of a sudden the reader comes across a modern day British singer and his band TRex (which I had to look up as I've never heard of both). There is humor, there is some history, but then I realize I'm reading some sort of satire. Unusual to say the least.… (mais)
The story is told from the viewpoint of a member of Cortez' army - a man who has helped finance the expedition first to explore and then later to colonize. There are two interpreters: a former priest and a young woman who becomes Cortez whore (maybe the word). Then it gets just plain weird - all of a sudden the reader comes across a modern day British singer and his band TRex (which I had to look up as I've never heard of both). There is humor, there is some history, but then I realize I'm reading some sort of satire. Unusual to say the least.… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 11
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 686
- Popularidade
- #36,875
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Críticas
- 28
- ISBN
- 57
- Línguas
- 7
- Marcado como favorito
- 1