Books from Mexico
82 popular mexican books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around North America Challenge" were written by authors from Mexico.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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El llano en llamas by Juan Rulfo ES
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
En 1953, dos años antes de " Pedro Páramo " , salió a la luz una recopilación de cuentos con el título de " El Llano en llamas " . Los lectores del momento, como los de ahora, sintieron nacer en su interior las preguntas: ¿Quién es Juan Rulfo? ¿Por qué escribe lo que escribe, tanta desolación, esa prosa tan severa y cargada de dolores, soledad y violencia? Esta edición ofrece el texto definitivo de " El Llano en llamas " corregido por la Fundación Juan Rulfo.
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El Llano in Flames by Juan Rulfo EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
For a writer so reserved in what he saw into print, Juan Rulfo has had a disproportional influence on writers of literature, in Spanish and beyond, on a par with Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez. His single story collection, El Llano in flames, provides a pithy and moving expression of life in central and western Mexico in the decades following the Revolution. These stories have the quality of an oral testimony to harsh years and are delivered in a spare and exquisite voice. This new translation by Stephen Beechinor marks the first time this masterpiece of Latin American literature... continue
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Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Julio Valdivieso, intelectual mexicano emigrado a Europa, vuelve a su país después de una larga ausencia. El PRI ha perdido al fin las elecciones y se inicia un peculiar período de transición. Julio vuelve a ese tiempo extraño de los regresos, donde se reencuentra con lo que pudo ser. En ese retorno extático y terrible se enfrenta a las claves de un amor perdido, la leyenda viva del poeta Ramón López Velarde, un episodio de la guerra cristera que depende de su propio nombre. En un singular rito de paso, regresa a una Ítaca azotada por el crimen organizado, la política entendida como conspiraci... continue
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Empty Houses by Brenda Navarro EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Daniel disappeared three months, two days and eight hours after his birthday. He was three. He was my son.
Empty Houses unfolds in the aftermath of a child's disappearance. His mother is distraught. As her life begins to unravel, she is haunted by his absence but also by her own ambivalence: did she even want him in the first place?
In a working-class neighbourhood on the other side of Mexico City another woman protects her stolen child. After longing desperately to be a mother, her life is violently altered by its reality. Alternating between these two contrasting voices, Empty Hou... continue
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Fiesta en la madriguera by Juan Pablo Villalobos ES
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
A Tochtli le gustan los sombreros, los diccionarios, los samuráis, las guillotinas y los franceses. Pero Tochtli es un niño y ahora lo que quiere es un nuevo animal para su zoológico privado: un hipopótamo enano de Liberia. Su padre, Yolcaut, un narcotraficante en la cúspide del poder, está dispuesto a cumplir todos sus caprichos. No importa que se trate de un animal exótico en peligro de extinción. Porque Yolcaut siempre puede. Tochtli vive en un palacio. Una madriguera recubierta de oro en la que convive con trece o quizá catorce... continue
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Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
The Mayan god of death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark, one-of-a-kind fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore. “A spellbinding fairy tale rooted in Mexican mythology . . . Gods of Jade and Shadow is a magical fairy tale about identity, freedom, and love, and it's like nothing you've read before.”—Bustle NEBULA AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • Tordotcom • The New York Public Library • BookRiot The Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is too busy cleaning the floors of her wealthy grandfather’s house to listen to any ... continue
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Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
An Instant New York Times Bestseller This “powerful, uplifting, and deeply personal novel” (Kristin Hannah, #1 NYT bestselling author of The Four Winds), at once “a heart-wrenching wartime drama” (Christina Baker Kline, #1 NYT bestselling author of Orphan Train) and “a moving and graceful tribute to heroic women” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), asks the question: What if a friendship forged on the front lines of war defines a life forever? In the tradition of The Nightingale and Transcription, this is a searing epic based on the magnificent and true story of courageous Red Cross women. “U... continue
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Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor ES
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
The English-language debut of one of the most thrilling and accomplished young Mexican writers Longlisted for the National Book Award Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Winner of the Internationaler Literaturpreis New York Public Library Best Books of 2020 Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2020
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I'll Sell You a Dog by Juan Pablo Villalobos EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Everything that can be done to fend off the boredom of retirement and old age, while still holding a beer.