Sudden Death

7 hrs. 3 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Álvaro Enrigue

Narrator Svetlana Kuryavina

Description

At noon on October 4, 1599, two unusual rivals meet in a public tennis court on Piazza Navona in Rome. One is a famed artist from Lombardy whose work will forever change how people of his time think about painting. The other is a young poet who would later become one of the pillars of the Spanish Golden Age of literature.

A приключенський novel presents familiar heroes (Galileo, Caravaggio, Quevedo, Cortés, and many others) as we have never seen them before—and dares to challenge everything we know about European colonialism, history, art, and modernity.

The book has been awarded Spain’s prestigious Premio Erralde (2013), Mexico’s International Elena Poniatowska Prize, and the Barcelona Prize. Translated into several languages.

Álvaro Enríquez (born 1969) is a writer, literary critic, and publisher. He taught at New York, Princeton, and Columbia Universities and at the University of Maryland. Born in Guadalajara (Mexico), he lives in New York.