Historical fiction books set in Mexico (13)
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1.
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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Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
An artist races to finish his forgery of a masterpiece while held captive in surreal, menacing splendor.
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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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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
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Como agua para chocolate / Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel ES
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Mexico zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts. Als jüngste von drei Töchtern darf Tita nicht heiraten, sondern muss bis zu deren Tod ihre Mutter versorgen. Pedro, ihre grosse Liebe, heiratet die ältere Schwester, um wenigstens in ihrer Nähe zu bleiben. Ihren Gefühlen kann sie allein in der Küche Ausdruck geben: die Gäste erleben beim Essen nach, was Tita beim Kochen empfunden hat - mit zum Teil grotesken Folgen.
7.
Swift as Desire by Laura Esquivel EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
As the millions of fans of Like Water for Chocolate know, Laura Esquivel is a romanticist whose novels explore the power of love and the truths of the human heart. She returns to those themes in Swift as Desire, the story of a loving and passionate man who has the gift of bringing happiness to everyone except his own wife. The hero of this novel is Júbilo Chi, a telegraph operator who is born with the ability to “hear” people’s true feelings and respond to their most intimate, unspoken desires. His life changes forever the day he falls deeply and irrevocably in love with Lucha, the beautiful d... continue
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Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic comes a fabulous meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost film—and awakens one woman’s hidden powers. “No one punctures the skin of reality to reveal the lurking, sinister magic beneath better than Silvia Moreno-Garcia.”—Kiersten White, #1 bestselling author of Hide Montserrat has always been overlooked. She’s a talented sound editor, but she’s left out of the boys’ club running the film industry in ’90s Mexico City. And she’s all ... continue
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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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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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A Ballad of Love and Glory by Reyna Grande EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
"A Long Petal of the Sea meets Luis Alberto Urrea's The House of Broken Angels in this epic historical romance about a Mexican woman and an Irish-American soldier who fall in love in the thick of the Mexican-American War"--
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The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, a sinister haunting, and the woman pulled into their clutches... During the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz’s father was executed and her home destroyed. When handsome Don Rodolfo Solórzano proposes, Beatriz ignores the rumors surrounding his first wife’s sudden demise, choosing instead to seize the security that his estate in the countryside provides. She will have her own home again, no matter the cost. But Hacienda San Isidro is ... continue