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Civilizations
- Title
- Civilizations / Laurent Binet ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor.
- Author
- Binet, Laurent
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Taylor, Sam, 1970-
- Description
- 310 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- An ambitious and highly entertaining novel of revisionist history. Freydis is a woman warrior and leader of a band of Viking explorers setting out to the south. They meet local tribes, exchange skills, are taken prisoner, and get as far as Panama. But nobody ultimately knows what became of them. Fast forward five hundred years to 1492 and we're reading the journals of Christopher Columbus, mid-Atlantic on his own famous voyage of exploration to the Americas, dreaming of gold and conquest. But he and his men are taken captive by Incas. Even as their suffering increases, his faith in his superiority, and in his mission, is unshaken. Thirty years later, Atahualpa, the last Inca emperor, arrives in Europe in the ships stolen from Columbus. He finds a continent divided by religious and dynastic quarrels, the Spanish Inquisition, Luther's Reformation, capitalism, the miracle of the printing press, endless warmongering between the ruling monarchies, and constant threat from the Turks. But most of all he finds downtrodden populations ready for revolution. Fortunately, he has a recent bestseller as a guidebook to acquiring power--Machiavelli's The Prince. The stage is set for a Europe ruled by Incas and Aztecs, and for a great war that will change history forever.
- Uniform Title
- Civilizations. English
- Alternative Title
- Civilizations.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Alternative histories (Fiction)
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Note
- Originally published in French in 2019 by Éditions Grasset et Fasquelle, France, as Civilizations.
- "A novel"--Jacket cover page 1.
- Language (note)
- In English; translated from the French.
- Contents
- Part one: The saga of Freydis Eriksdottir -- Part two: The journal of Christopher Columbus (fragments) -- Part three: The chronicles of Atahualpa -- Part four: The adventures of Cervantes.
- Call Number
- JFD 21-3103
- ISBN
- 9780374600815
- 0374600813
- LCCN
- 2021015723
- OCLC
- 1227086517
- Author
- Binet, Laurent, author.
- Title
- Civilizations / Laurent Binet ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor.
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- In English; translated from the French.
- Added Author
- Taylor, Sam, 1970- translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 21-3103