Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was by Angelica Gorodischer #literature New Statesman

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Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was by Angelica Gorodischer #literature New StatesmanDATE OF RELEASE: 16 JUL 2026 A dazzling tapestry of myth, fantasy and folk tale from Argentina's great writer of speculative fiction, in a translation by Ursula K. Le Guin. In 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.