Sudden Death: A Novel by Álvaro Enrigue

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

"Splendid" — New York Times "Mind-bending." — Wall Street Journal "Brilliantly original. The best new novel I've read this year." — Salman Rushdie 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 artist battle it out in Rome before a crowd that includes G