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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Torrey Peters, Sinéad Campbell and Guardian readers

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in April

Brian by Jeremy Cooper; You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue; The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger.
Brian by Jeremy Cooper; You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue; The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger. Composite: Fitzcarraldo; Harvill Secker; Fourth Estate


Torrey Peters, author

Even though it came out only last year, I was so impressed with Álvaro Enrigue’s You Dreamed of Empires that I am on my second reread. As all around me institutions fall and norms fail, I feel the moment requires audacious re-imaginings of history or possibilities of thought, and on both a political and imaginative level, Enrigue delivers with his wild telling of the meeting between Hernán Cortés and Moctezuma.

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