A complex historical pageant of astonishing richness
Guardian, Best Books of 2016
Engaging, audacious, and flat-out fun... Sudden Death marks the arrival of a major player on the capital-L courts of literature
Vice
Intellectually formidable… Enrigue is a cerebral and sanguine Spanish-Language postmodernist… It takes literary bravery to be this candid as a writer
New Statesman
Dazzlingly clever and thrillingly original
Mail on Sunday
Exhilarating, funny, and surprisingly sexy... Enrigue turns historical figures into real, flesh-and-blood people and really gets you thinking about art and history: what qualifies as either — and why
Buzzfeed
Brilliant... Enrigue has crafted a tennis allegory for the modern age: a heady, raucous meditation on chaos, power, language and the ways in which history is created and preserved... Enrigue blends historical elements with fantasy to conjure a light, knowing and very funny history in which the present is always lurking beneath the surface... Enrigue's prose is endlessly inventive, full of aphorisms, wry anecdotes and swaggering declarations.
Financial Times