temptation
In a sleepy village in the Shire
This new book--written by the beloved author of the international bestseller The Soul of an Octopus
One of the most famous and beloved stories from the Queen of Mystery
"a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes by
You Dreamed of Empires temptation"Short, strange, spiky and sublime [Enrigue] is clearly a major talent." Dwight Garner, The New York Times From the visionary author of Sudden Death, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story. One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernn Corts entered the city of Tenochtitlan today's Mexico City. Later that day, he would meet the emperor Moctezuma in a collision of two worlds, two empires, two languages, two possible futures. Corts was