Beschavingen by Laurent binet

An inventive alternate-history novel that imagines a reversal of the Age of Discovery in which non‑European powers cross the Atlantic and upend Europe, triggering unexpected cultural collisions, political upheavals and moral reckonings; narrated with playful metafiction, genre-bending shifts and satirical edge, it reexamines conquest, empire and the writing of history while probing how contingent and constructed our narratives of civilization truly are.