Sudden Death
$30.64
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2017
Summary
A funny and mind-bending novel about the clash of empires and ideas in the sixteenth century, told over the course of one dazzling tennis match.
‘Glorious’ New York Times
‘Endlessly inventive’, Guardian, Best Books of 2016
‘Wildly funny’ Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies
As Caravaggio, the libertine of Italy’s art world, and the loutish Spanish poet Quevedo aim to settle scores over the course of one brutal tennis match, the ol…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099598053 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099598051 |
| Author: | Natasha Wimmer, Álvaro Enrigue |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2017 |
| Weight: | 186g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 130mm x 196mm |
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Critics Review
A complex historical pageant of astonishing richness
A complex historical pageant of astonishing richness * Guardian, Best Books of 2016 *
Engaging, audacious, and flat-out fun… Sudden Death marks the arrival of a major player on the capital-L courts of literature * Vice *
Intellectually formidable… Enrigue is a cerebral and sanguine Spanish-Language postmodernist… It takes literary bravery to be this candid as a writer * New Statesman *
Dazzlingly clever and thrillingly original * Mail on Sunday *
Exhilarating, funny, and surprisingly sexy… Enrigue turns historical figures into real, flesh-and-blood people and really gets you thinking about art and history: what qualifies as either — and why * Buzzfeed *
Brilliant… Enrigue has crafted a tennis allegory for the modern age: a heady, raucous meditation on chaos, power, language and the ways in which history is created and preserved… Enrigue blends historical elements with fantasy to conjure a light, knowing and very funny history in which the present is always lurking beneath the surface… Enrigue’s prose is endlessly inventive, full of aphorisms, wry anecdotes and swaggering declarations. * Financial Times *
Natasha Wimmer
Álvaro Enrigue
Álvaro Enrigue is a prize-winning Mexican writer. His novel You Dreamed of Empires was a New York Times Top 10 Best Book of 2024 and a Guardian Book of the Year. His work has appeared in The New York Times, the London Review of Books, El Pais, and n+1, among other publications. A former Fellow at the Cullman Center and at Princeton University, he teaches Latin American Literature at Hofstra University and lives with his family in New York City.
Natasha Wimmer
Natasha Wimmer’s translations include Álvaro Enrigue’s You Dreamed of Empires and Sudden Death, and Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives and 2666. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.
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