Terra Nostra

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Recommended at the end of the episode as a book that 'transcends the terms of the debate' about Columbus as hero or villain. Described as Fuentes's 'masterpiece and by far his most difficult book,' it is a counterfactual novel in which Philip II's reign unfolds without America having been discovered, Elizabeth I is married to him as 'Isabel Tudor,' and Don Quixote appears. Inspired by Finnegans Wake but described as 'infinitely more readable,' it's recommended for anyone wanting to grasp the 'overwhelming strangeness' of the European encounter with the New World.

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Described as counterfactual novel where Philip II marries Elizabeth Tudor and Don Quixote is a character