Sudden Death

by Álvaro Enrigue

Book Overview

"Splendid"?-- New York Times "[A]?novel without boundaries." -- O , the Oprah Magazine "Mind-bending."?-- Wall Street Journal A daring, kaleidoscopic novel about the clash of empires and ideas, told through a tennis match in the sixteenth century between the radical Italian artist Caravaggio and the Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo, played with a ball made from the hair of the beheaded Anne Boleyn. The poet and the painter battle it out in Rome before...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594633460
• ISBN13: 9781594633461
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.4"