you dreamed of empires – Mike Wilson https://mikewilsonwriter.com Writing in the post-truth world Tue, 30 Apr 2024 17:27:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 177517995 Book Review – You Dream of Empires, by Alvaro Enrigue https://mikewilsonwriter.com/2024/05/27/book-review-you-dream-of-empires-by-alvaro-enrigue/ https://mikewilsonwriter.com/2024/05/27/book-review-you-dream-of-empires-by-alvaro-enrigue/#respond Mon, 27 May 2024 17:24:38 +0000 https://mikewilsonwriter.com/?p=3032

You Dreamed of Empires by Alvaro Enrigue is part historical novel (the reimagined meeting of Cortes and Montezuma) and part satire, presented in a hallucinatory maze of magic mushrooms. The book got rave reviews from literary critics, but at times I had trouble sorting out the Aztec names and politics. The book is meta and self-consciously clever. Here’s a collection of reviews in Book Marks:

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