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A hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story in sixteenth-century Mexico, from the visionary author of Sudden DeathOne morning in 1519, conquistador Hernán Cortés rode into the floating city of Tenoxtitlan ¿ today¿s Mexico City ¿ accompanied by his eight captains, his troops, and his two translators.Invited to a ceremonial meal with the steely princess Atotoxtli, sister and wife of the emperor Moctezuma, the Spanish nearly bungle their ...

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Selected as a Guardian best book of 2016A funny and mind-bending novel about the clash of empires and ideas in the sixteenth century, told over the course of one dazzling tennis matchA brutal tennis match in Rome.

Splendid" -New York Times"Mind-bending." -Wall Street Journal"Brilliantly original. The best new novel I've read this year." -Salman RushdieA daring, kaleidoscopic novel about the clash of empires and ideas, told through a tennis match in the sixteenth century between the radical Italian artist Caravaggio and the Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo, played with a ball made from the hair of the beheaded Anne Boleyn. The poet and the artist battle...

A humorous novel about the clash of empires and ideas in the sixteenth century, told over the course of one brutal tennis match in Rome.