You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue review – colonialism as a bloody heist comedy
The Mexican writer’s imaginative riff on the conquest of the Aztecs is an enigmatic, drily funny farce
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You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue review – the birth of Mexico
Real events are compressed into one extraordinary day as Spanish conquistadors penetrate the heart of Aztec civilisation, in a novel of hallucinatory vividness
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