Books set in Mexico (52)
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31.
Pedro Paramo. El llano en llamas by Juan Rulfo, Eduardo Galeano ES
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Pedro Páramo y El llano en llamas representan dos aportaciones fundamentales a la literatura contemporánea en lengua castellana. Tanto en la novela como en la colección de relatos, Juan Rulfo nos transporta con gran maestría de lo real a lo fantástico por medio de un estilo vigoroso y poético. Profundamente enraizada en lo popular, la narrativa de Juan Rulfo describe con conmovedora fuerza la cotidiana realidad de un mundo a la vez violento y lírico. Si los cuentos de El llano en llamas describen, con exquisita sobriedad, el mundo de los campesi... continue
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Recollections of Things to Come by Elena Garro EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
This remarkable first novel depicts life in the small Mexican town of Ixtepec during the grim days of the Revolution. The town tells its own story against a variegated background of political change, religious persecution, and social unrest. Elena Garro, who has also won a high reputation as a playwright, is a masterly storyteller. Although her plot is dramatically intense and suspenseful, the novel does not depend for its effectiveness on narrative continuity. It is a book of episodes, one that leaves the reader with a series of vivid impressions. The colors are bright, the smells pungent, th... continue
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Selected Poems by Octavio Paz, G. Aroul EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Octavio Paz, asserts Eliot Weinberger in his introduction to these Selected Poems, is among the last of the modernists "who drew their own maps of the world." For Latin America's foremost living poet, his native Mexico has been the center of a global mandala, a cultural configuration that, in his life and work, he has traced to its furthest reaches: to Spain, as a young Marxist during the Civil War; to San Francisco and New York in the early 1940s; to Paris, as a surrealist, in the postwar years; to India and Japan in 1952, and to the East again as his country's ambassador to India from 1962 t... continue
34.
Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
A streetwise heroine travels from Mexico to USA via the mythical and criminal underworlds in the search for her brother
35.
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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Tell Me how it Ends : An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
A damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children seeking a new life in the US.
37.
The Body Where I was Born by Guadalupe Nettel EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
The first novel to appear in English by one of the most talked-about and critically acclaimed writers of new Mexican fiction. From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood—in which she was born with an abnormality in her eye into a family intent on fixing it. In a world without the time and space for innocence, the narrator intimately recalls her younger self—a fierce and discerning girl open to life’s pleasures and keen to its ruthless cycle of tragedy. With raw language and a brilliant sense of humor, both delicate and unafraid, Nettel strings together hard-w... continue
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The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a lavish historical drama reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico. “This is historical science fiction at its best: a dreamy reimagining of a classic story with vivid descriptions of lush jungles and feminist themes. Some light romance threads through the heavier ethical questions concerning humanity.”—Library Journal (starred review) “The imagination of Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a thing of wonder, restless and romantic, fearless in the... continue
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The Dream of My Return by Horacio Castellanos Moya EN
Country: North America / 
Honduras
Honduras
Description:
Drinking way too much and breaking up with his wife, an exiled journalist in Mexico City dreams of returning home to El Salvador. When he decides to treat his liver pain with hypnosis, his few impulse-control mechanisms rapidly dissolve. Hair-brained schemes, half-mad arguments, unraveling murder plots, hysterical rants: everything escalates. But is his plan a dream or a nightmare?
40.
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
An artist races to finish his forgery of a masterpiece while held captive in surreal, menacing splendor.