Shocking, erudite, and affecting, these twenty-odd short stories, "micro-novels," 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-rus...
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...
Born under strange circumstances to a high-society teenager and a pentagenarian entrepreneur, Jerónimo Rodriguez Loera is off to an inauspicious start—then things get worse. Through an assemblage of records, letters, and firsthand testimon...
From the visionary author of Sudden Death, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story.One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernán Cortés entered the city of Tenochtitlan â€" today's Mexico City. Later that day, he would meet the emperor ...