Book Discussion: You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue

Join Kim Masteller, curator of South and Southeast Asian Art and Painted Worlds: Color and Culture in Mesoamerican Art, Dr. Alberto Villamandas, Associate Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at UMKC, along with Spencer Art Reference Library staff, for a discussion of Álvaro Enrigue’s 2024 novel, You Dreamed of Empires. This best-selling book reimagines the collision of cultures that was the meeting between Hernán Cortés and Moctezuma. Based on meticulous research and infused with farcical irreverence, Enrigue explores what might have happened during this fateful encounter in 1519, setting the scene for the art and culture of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, and the site of modern-day Mexico City.

The book You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue is available for purchase in the museum store.

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