6/20/2023 0 Comments Laurent binet books![]() ![]() Spreading smallpox and losing track of the occasional horse, they wander down the Atlantic coast until they disappear from history. Getting there requires fewer counterfactuals than you might imagine: in Binet’s telling, all it takes is a small band of Vikings from Leif Eriksen’s Newfoundland colony wandering south after a murderous dispute. What if the Spanish conquest happened in reverse? This is the premise of Laurent Binet’s newest novel Civilizations, out last month in English translation by Sam Taylor, a centuries-spanning epic that posits a world in which the Incan Empire colonizes Spain. ![]()
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