{"id":51196,"date":"2025-02-05T09:05:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T09:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/you-dreamed-of-empires-a-novel\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T09:05:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T09:05:48","slug":"you-dreamed-of-empires-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/you-dreamed-of-empires-a-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"You Dreamed of Empires: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\nPrice: <span style=\"color:#b12704\"><del>$18.00<\/del> - $16.20<\/span><br \/><i><small>(as of Feb 05, 2025 09:05:48 UTC &#8211; <span class=\"wp_automatic_amazon_disclaimer\" title=\"Product prices and availability are accurate as of the date\/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on [relevant Amazon Site(s), as applicable] at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.\">Details<\/span>)<\/small><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amazon.com\/dp\/0593544803?tag=musadiqhus0f2-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/valvepress.s3.amazonaws.com\/imgs\/buy_now.png\"><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n  A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF 2024<\/p>\n<p>A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Short, strange, spiky and sublime.\u201d \u2014Dwight Garner, New York Times<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFunny, ghastly, eye-opening, marvelous.\u201d \u2014Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n<p>From the visionary author of Sudden Death, a hallucinatory, revelatory colonial revenge story.<\/p>\n<p>One morning in 1519, conquistador Hern\u00e1n Cort\u00e9s enters the city of Tenochtitlan \u2013 today&#8217;s Mexico City. Later that day, he will meet the emperor Moctezuma in a collision of two worlds, two empires, two languages, two possible futures.<\/p>\n<p>Cort\u00e9s is accompanied by his captains, his troops, his prized horses, and his two translators: Friar Aguilar, a taciturn friar, and Malinalli, an enslaved, strategic Nahua princess. After nearly bungling their entrance to the city, the Spaniards are greeted at a ceremonial welcome meal by the steely Aztec princess Atotoxtli, sister and wife of Moctezuma. As they await their meeting with the emperor \u2013 who is at a political and spiritual crossroads, and relies on hallucinogens to get by \u2013 Cort\u00e9s and his entourage are ensconced in the labyrinthine palace. Soon, one of Cort\u00e9s\u2019s captains, Jazm\u00edn Caldera, overwhelmed by the grandeur of the place, begins to question the ease with which they were welcomed into the city, and wonders at the chances of getting out alive, much less conquering the empire. And what if&#8230; they don&#8217;t?<\/p>\n<p>You Dreamed of Empires brings Tenochtitlan to life at its height, and reimagines its destiny. The incomparably original \u00c1lvaro Enrigue sets afire the moment of conquest and turns it into a moment of revolution, a restitutive, fantastical counterattack, in a novel so electric and so unique that it feels like a dream.    <br \/> <br \/>\n         From the Publisher            <\/p>\n<p>                                          <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A New York Times Top Ten Book of 2024: YOU DREAMED OF EMPIRES\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/G\/01\/x-locale\/common\/grey-pixel.gif\" class=\"a-lazy-loaded\" data-src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/S\/aplus-media-library-service-media\/46c72f85-9763-4bcb-973a-a1825bff194e.__CR0,0,970,300_PT0_SX970_V1___.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A New York Times Top Ten Book of 2024: YOU DREAMED OF EMPIRES\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/S\/aplus-media-library-service-media\/46c72f85-9763-4bcb-973a-a1825bff194e.__CR0,0,970,300_PT0_SX970_V1___.jpg\">   <\/p>\n<p>                                          <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Genius... [with] a pinch of biting humor, says Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Los Angeles Times\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/G\/01\/x-locale\/common\/grey-pixel.gif\" class=\"a-lazy-loaded\" data-src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/S\/aplus-media-library-service-media\/1af3122a-a798-4793-b977-8c9713cd83a2.__CR0,0,970,300_PT0_SX970_V1___.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Genius... [with] a pinch of biting humor, says Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Los Angeles Times\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/S\/aplus-media-library-service-media\/1af3122a-a798-4793-b977-8c9713cd83a2.__CR0,0,970,300_PT0_SX970_V1___.jpg\">   <\/p>\n<p>                                          <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Incantatory... Conjures both court intrigue and city life with grace, says The New Yorker\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/G\/01\/x-locale\/common\/grey-pixel.gif\" class=\"a-lazy-loaded\" data-src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/S\/aplus-media-library-service-media\/a141e4b9-f1a3-46ef-b4e3-935575baf79e.__CR0,0,970,300_PT0_SX970_V1___.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Incantatory... Conjures both court intrigue and city life with grace, says The New Yorker\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/S\/aplus-media-library-service-media\/a141e4b9-f1a3-46ef-b4e3-935575baf79e.__CR0,0,970,300_PT0_SX970_V1___.jpg\">   <\/p>\n<p>                                          <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Funny, ghastly, eye-opening, marvelous, and frequently confounding, says The Wall Street Journal\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/G\/01\/x-locale\/common\/grey-pixel.gif\" class=\"a-lazy-loaded\" data-src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/S\/aplus-media-library-service-media\/b363fcfa-37cf-4b89-9825-1ac97fe099e9.__CR0,0,970,300_PT0_SX970_V1___.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Funny, ghastly, eye-opening, marvelous, and frequently confounding, says The Wall Street Journal\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/S\/aplus-media-library-service-media\/b363fcfa-37cf-4b89-9825-1ac97fe099e9.__CR0,0,970,300_PT0_SX970_V1___.jpg\">   <\/p>\n<p>                                          <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An alternate history of Mexican conquest, with a Tarantino-ready twist, says The Washington Post\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/G\/01\/x-locale\/common\/grey-pixel.gif\" class=\"a-lazy-loaded\" data-src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/S\/aplus-media-library-service-media\/06829adc-15d6-44a2-84a9-477e727d6e8b.__CR0,0,970,300_PT0_SX970_V1___.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An alternate history of Mexican conquest, with a Tarantino-ready twist, says The Washington Post\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/S\/aplus-media-library-service-media\/06829adc-15d6-44a2-84a9-477e727d6e8b.__CR0,0,970,300_PT0_SX970_V1___.jpg\">   <\/p>\n<p> Publisher                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 Riverhead Books (December 31, 2024) <br \/> Language                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 English <br \/> Paperback                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 240 pages <br \/> ISBN-10                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 0593544803 <br \/> ISBN-13                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 978-0593544808 <br \/> Item Weight                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 6.4 ounces <br \/> Dimensions                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 5.11 x 0.64 x 7.93 inches <\/p>\n<div id=\"product-summary\" data-hook=\"cr-insights-widget-summary\" class=\"a-section a-spacing-none\">\n<div class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-spacing-top-\">\n<h3 data-hook=\"cr-insights-heading-label\" class=\"a-size-base-plus a-color-base a-text-bold\">Customers say<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"a-spacing-small\"><span>Customers find the book engaging and well-written. 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