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Sudden Death : A Novel by Enrigue, Álvaro; Wimmer, Natasha is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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**A daring, kaleidoscopic novel about the clash of empires and ideas in the sixteenth century that continue to reverberate throughout modernity—a story unlike anything you’ve ever read before.**** ** *Sudden Death* begins with a brutal tennis match that could decide the fate of the world. The bawdy Italian painter Caravaggio and the loutish Spanish poet Quevedo battle it out before a crowd that includes Galileo, Mary Magdalene, and a generation of popes who would throw Europe into the flames. In England, Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII behead Anne Boleyn, and her crafty executioner transforms her legendary locks into the most sought-after tennis balls of the time. Across the ocean in Mexico, the last Aztec emperors play their own games, as conquistador Hernán Cortés and his Mayan translator and lover, La Malinche, scheme and conquer, fight and f**k, not knowing that their domestic comedy will change the world. And in a remote Mexican colony a bishop reads Thomas More’s *Utopia* and thinks that instead of a parody, it’s a manual.In this mind-bending, prismatic novel, worlds collide, time coils, traditions break down. There are assassinations and executions, hallucinogenic mushrooms,

Who reads Sudden Death : A Novel?

Author

Enrigue, Álvaro; Wimmer, Natasha

Publisher

Riverhead Books

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781594633461

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance

Rating

3.71 / 5 (1,146 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13