Álvaro Enrigue with Marie Arana: You Dreamed of Empires

Álvaro Enrigue, the author of Sudden Death, returns with a new novel that reimagines the destinies of Tenochtitlan. Told over the course of one extraordinary day, You Dreamed of Empires rambles in the Aztec capital as it is on the verge of conquest and Emperor Moctezuma is at a political, spiritual, and physical crossroads. Álvaro Enrigue joins author Marie Arana at NYPL for a discussion of his alternate history, writing against the historical record, and the real and imagined forces behind the fateful meeting of Hernán Cortés and Moctezuma.