Books from Mexico
111 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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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.
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Dancing with Cuba by Alma Guillermoprieto EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
In 1970 a young dancer named Alma Guillermoprieto left New York to take a job teaching at Cuba’s National School of Dance. For six months, she worked in mirrorless studios (it was considered more revolutionary); her poorly trained but ardent students worked without them but dreamt of greatness. Yet in the midst of chronic shortages and revolutionary upheaval, Guillermoprieto found in Cuba a people whose sense of purpose touched her forever. In this electrifying memoir, Guillermoprieto–now an award-winning journalist and arguably one of our finest writers on Latin America– resurrects a time whe... continue
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Daughter of Fire : A Novel by Sofia Robleda EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
For a young woman coming of age in sixteenth-century Guatemala, safeguarding her people's legacy is a dangerous pursuit in a mystical, empowering, and richly imagined historical novel. Catalina de Cerrato is being raised by her widowed father, Don Alonso, in 1551 Guatemala, scarcely thirty years since the Spanish invasion. A ruling member of the oppressive Spanish hierarchy, Don Alonso holds sway over the newly relegated lower class of Indigenous communities. Fiercely independent, Catalina struggles to honor her father and her late mother, a Maya noblewoman to whom Catalina made a vow that onl... continue
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Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
"Originally published in Spanish in 2010 as Fiesta en la madriguera by Anagrama, S.A., Barcelona, Spain; English translation originally published in 2011 by And Other Stories, Great Britain"--Title page verso.
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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 GarcÃa MÃ rquez. 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 literatu... 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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