Historical fiction books from Mexico
Recommended historical fiction books (15)
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If you are into historical fiction here are some historical fiction books from Mexico for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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The Murmur of Bees by Sofía Segovia EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
From a beguiling voice in Mexican fiction comes an astonishing novel--her first to be translated into English--about a mysterious child with the power to change a family's history in a country on the verge of revolution. From the day that old Nana Reja found a baby abandoned under a bridge, the life of a small Mexican town forever changed. Disfigured and covered in a blanket of bees, little Simonopio is for some locals the stuff of superstition, a child kissed by the devil. But he is welcomed by landowners Francisco and Beatriz Morales, who adopt him and care for him as if he were their own. A... continue
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The Squatter and the Don by María Amparo Ruiz de Burton EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
The Squatter and the Don, originally published in San Francisco in 1885, is the first fictional narrative written and published in English from the perspective of the conquered Mexican population that, despite being granted the full rights of citizenship under the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1848, was, by 1860, a subordinated and marginalized national minority.
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Two Novels of Mexico : The Flies. The Bosses by Mariano Azuela EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
-- "The Bosses" is set during the presidency (1911 to 1913) of Francisco Madero (1873-1913), the successful revolutionary who has ousted the previous president. It focuses on unscrupulous political "caicques" (bosses) who manage to ruin two men: Don Juanito, an honest businessman, is robbed of his livelihood, and Rodriguez, an idealistic clerk, is killed for criticizing the bosses.-- adapted from "The Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature", page 89, accessed online at Google Books, 9-15-17.
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Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER! Vampires and vaqueros face off on the Texas-Mexico border in this supernatural western from the author of The Hacienda. As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters—her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers from the north. But something more sinister lurks near the ranch at night, something that drains men of their blood and leaves them for dead. Something that once attacked Nena nine years ago. Believing Nena dead, Néstor has been on the run from his grief ever since, moving from ranch to ranch ... continue
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You Dreamed of Empires : A Novel by Álvaro Enrigue EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
“Short, strange, spiky and sublime… [Enrigue] is clearly a major talent.” – Dwight Garner, The New York Times From the visionary author of Sudden Death, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story. One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernán Cortés entered the city of Tenochtitlan – today's Mexico City. Later that day, he would meet the emperor Moctezuma in a collision of two worlds, two empires, two languages, two possible futures. Cortés was accompanied by his nine captains, his troops, and his two translators: Friar Aguilar, a taciturn, former slave, and Malinalli, a strategic, former ... continue