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 · Ma. Álvaro Enrigue, a Mexican author who lives in New York, must be having some fun when people ask what his latest novel is Author: Nicholas Casey. Sudden Death by Alvaro Enrigue. A book that’s hard to classify but I think it’s mostly a historical novel told in vignettes more-or-less tied in with the history of early tennis. Mostly the time frame is during the Renaissance, lets say the ’s and ’s, and the counter-reformation of the mid’s/5.  · SUDDEN DEATH. by Álvaro Enrigue ; translated by Natasha Wimmer ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 9, A tennis match between a poet and a painter serves as an extended metaphor on the messy clash between colonialism and art. It’s On one side of a court in Rome is the Italian painter Caravaggio; on the other, the Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo.

"Splendid"#;mdash;New York Times"Mind-bending."#;mdash;Wall Street Journal"Brilliantly original. The best new novel I've read this year."#;mdash;Salman RushdieA daring, kaleidoscopic novel about the clash of empires and ideas, told through a. On November 4, , Enrigue's novel Muerte súbita (Sudden Death) was announced as the winner of the 31st Herralde Novel Prize, joining a distinguished list of works by authors from Spain and Latin America, including Sergio Pitol, Enrique Vila-Matas, Álvaro Pombo, Javier Marías, Juan Villoro, and Roberto Bolaño. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue (, Hardcover) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!

Transcending time, place, and traditional narrative style, Mexican author Álvaro Enrigue’s novel Sudden Death () is a postmodernist exploration of ideas as they collide with empires, presented through a fictional tennis match between the Italian artist Caravaggio and the Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo. Told through a series of scrapbook-like episodes, the story pays tribute to the human mind's capacity to think, to create, to reason, and to transcend reason—and, ultimately, to bend. Ma. Álvaro Enrigue, a Mexican author who lives in New York, must be having some fun when people ask what his latest novel is about. In no particular order, “Sudden Death” concerns. It’s as true in geopolitics as it is in sport: Never underestimate an opponent. That’s one of the many themes in “Sudden Death,” the new novel by Álvaro Enrigue. By turns intellectual and.