Álvaro Enrigue : You Dreamed of Empires

Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry - A podcast by David Naimon, Tin House Books

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Today’s conversation with Álvaro Enrigue about his latest novel, You Dreamed of Empires, translated by Natasha Wimmer, is set during the relatively undocumented first encounter between Moctezuma and Hernán Cortés. The novel dilates the knife’s edge moment when the Aztec emperor invites the conquistador, with his small band of Spanish soldiers, into the palaces of […]