Álvaro Enrigue & Chigozie Obioma: History and Myth

  • Sun 18 Aug 16:00 - 17:00
  • EFI Courtyard Theatre
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Álvaro Enrigue & Chigozie Obioma: History and Myth

The year is 1519 and Conquistador Hernán Cortés and his troops ride into Tenoxtitlan, today’s Mexico City. This is You Dreamed of Empires, Álvaro Enrigue’s hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story. Chigozie Obioma’s The Road to the Country is an odyssey of brotherhood, love and unimaginable courage set during the Biafran War. Two award-winning writers come together to discuss reimagining history and myth with Daniel Hahn.

Categories: Fiction, History

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