Kalpa Imperial : The Greatest Empire That Never Was - Angelica Gorodischer

A dazzling tapestry of myth, fantasy and folk tale from Argentina's great writer of speculative fiction, in a translation by Ursula K. Le GuinIn city squares and glittering palaces, a series of storytellers recount the many deaths and rebirths of the greatest Empire that never was: a history in which beggars rise to the Golden Throne, mad emperors raze cities and murderous empresses plot against their own children. Ang�lica Gorodischer's dreamlike novel, masterfully translated by Ursula K. Le Guin, conjures a labyrinthine fictional universe of magical lore, broken dynasties and an Empire fated to rise, fall and rise again. `A landmark of Spanish-language imaginative fiction: a lyrical work that reimagines fantasy and myth from one of Argentina's most brilliant writers' Mariana Enriquez, author of Our Share of Night