Bøger af Alvaro Enrigue

Sæt og match af den mexicanske forfatter Álvaro Enrigues overdådige historiske roman om sport, politik og menneskelig dårskab. Det er en fortælling om, hvordan Hernán Cortés sejrede over aztekerne i Mexico, og om hvordan en lurendrejer ved et tilfælde blev Pave Pius IV. Og så er der historien om, hvordan en bold skabt af hår fra Anne Boleyn, Henrik VIII’s halshuggede kone, blev omdrejningspunktet for en drabelig tennisduel mellem den nye og den gamle verden. Sæt og match er forfatterens første bog på dansk..

Shocking, erudite, and affecting, these twenty-odd short stories, "e;micro-novels,"e; and vignettes span a vast territory, from Mexico City to Washington, D.C. to the late nineteenth-century Adriatic to the blood-soaked foothills of California's gold-rush country, introducing an array of bewildering characters: a professor of Latin American literature who survives a tornado and, possibly, an orgy; an electrician confronting the hardest wiring job of his career; a hapless garbage man who dreams of life as a pirate; and a prodigiously talented Polish baritone waging musical war against his church.Hypothermiaexplores the perilous limits of love, language, and personality, the brutal gravity of cultural misunderstandings, and the coldly smirking will to self-destruction hiding within our irredeemably carnal lives.

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 old European order edges closer to eruption. Across the ocean, in early sixteenth-century Mexico, the Aztec Empire is under the fatal grip of Hernan Cortes and his Mayan lover.