An ambitious and highly entertaining novel of revisionist history from the author of the international bestsellerHHhH, Laurent Binet'sCivilizations is nothing less than a strangely believable counterfactual history of the modern world, fizzing with ideas about colonization, empire-building, and the eternal human quest for domination. It is an electrifying novel by one of Europe's most exciting writers.Freydis is a woman warrior and leader of a band of Viking explorers setting