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Sudden Death
By Alvara Enrigue
272 pages;
Riverhead Books
Translated by Natasha Wimmer
The players: painter Caravaggio and poet Quevedo. The game: Renaissance tennis. The ball: made of Anne Boleyn's hair. The stakes: Western civilization itself. The medium: a novel without boundaries.
— Dotun Akintoye
Published 01/22/2016
