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Considerada la fundadora del boom latinoamericano, La regi?n m?s transparente no solo ofrece un tratamiento novedoso de la historia de M?xico, sino que, adem?s, por el empleo de diversas t?cnicas literarias y de novedades tipogr?ficas, y por la trasgresi?n de las tradiciones narrativas, se convirti? desde su aparici?n en una obra rompedora hasta el punto de ser considerada, todav?a hoy, el punto de partida de una nueva forma de narrar dentro de la...
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Victor Li novels volume 2
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A riveting thriller about a young man on the run from a furtive past, in search of a quick payday in Mexico City, who finds himself in the crosshairs of a dangerous international scheme. Victor Li is a man without a past. To his new employer, Mark, he's just an anonymous hired hand to help with the dirty work. Together, they break into storage units that contain the possessions of the recently deported, pocketing whatever is worth selling. Only Victor...
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Colección compactos volume 232
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New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: To track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesarea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run.
La novela narra la búsqueda de la poetisa mexicana Cesárea Tinajero, por parte de dos jóvenes poetas fundadores...
26) The law of love
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"Fusion of science fiction and adventure-romance attempts to produce a multimedia 'event' that narrates through comic-strip panels and period music on accompanying CD. New Age tracts, precolumbian poetry, Puccini arias, and tedious plots never achieve narrative coherence in spite of Peden's adequate translation"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
27) Umami
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Deep in the heart of Mexico City, where five houses cluster around a sun-drenched courtyard, lives Ana, a precocious twelve-year-old who spends her days buried in Agatha Christie novels to forget the mysterious death of her little sister years earlier. Over the summer she decides to plant a milpa in her backyard, and as she digs the ground and plants her seeds, her neighbors in turn delve into their past. The ripple effects of grief, childlessness,...
28) Cry in the night
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"Egyptologist Sheila Ramsay develops a newfound interest in MesoAmerican affairs after meeting an outspoken--and attractive--Mexico City curator, a harsh critic of museums that deal in stolen art. And her own museum gives her the perfect opportunity to see him again: a valuable Aztec manuscript needs to be returned to its rightful owners, the wealthy Ortega family. But things don't go as planned for Sheila south of the border. An anonymous note threatens...
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Humanity as a commodity: that is the cynical, carnival, explosive background of Materialismo histérico. Fables without uplifting morals, their stories paint a society in which to sell, buy, bribe, and blackmail. Together, they form a giant picture of rapacious capitalism turned modern: a world where ambition, power, credit, and commissions are the only engines of existence.
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"Where the Air is Clear, Carlos Fuentes's first novel, opens with a metaphorical description of Mexico City and the challenges facing its inhabitants and quickly becomes an unsparing portrayal of the upper class. Departing from a traditional linear narrative, Fuentes constructs his novel around a series of encounters with members of this world, including Federico Robles, an ambitious self-made millionaire; Rodrigo Pola, a writer whose father was executed...
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"Nueve historias que describen la realidad que ocurre dia tras dia, se reunen para crear una imagen del lo que pasa en las calles de la ciudad mas populada en el mundo"--Container.
"Nine stories weave together to create a tapestry of life on the streets of the world's most populated city"--Container.
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Three children have disappeared in Mexico City. The only clue the police have is that the cases are related, when a few days after the kidnappings, their families receive a macabre gift: a bag with the boys' bones and bloody clothes. No one suspects that Sergio Mendhoza, a thirteen-year-old, is the only one able to solve this mystery.
34) Toda la vida
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"¿Recibir y callar la confesión de un crimen pasional nos vuelve su complice? Podemos escapar al peso del pasado? Somos los protagonistas de nuestro destino o simples comparsas? Esta y otras preguntas nos plantea esta emblemática novela de elecciones extremas. Serrano, Felo, Pato y Liliana entrañan una red de silencios, traiciones y obsesiones cruzadas por los años que la muerte de un conocido desatará de nueva cuenta. Fábula sin moraleja sobre...
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When a female journalist visits the city in an attempt to escape her heartbreaking past, she finds herself surrounded by corruption.
"Malú Huacuja del Toro entrega una novela en llamas, una novela-espejo, donde la sociedad mexicana halla el reflejo de su decadencia: una imagen grotesca que se reproduce intacta en los cristales rotos de la cruda realidad"--Container.
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"Domingo, un solitario recolector de basura que vive en la calle, trata de sobrevivir en una ciudad indiferente y amenazadora cuan una hastiada vampiresa a la fuga aparece en su vida. Atl, descendiente de bebedores de sangre aztecas, es inteligente, preciosa y peligrosa, y Domingo queda hipnotizado. Atl necesita escapar rápidamente de la ciudad, lejos del clan narco-vampírico rival que la persigue sin descanso. También requiere de un ayudante...
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