Books set in Mexico (121)
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'Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' - Salman Rushdie 'Every new work from her is a gift' - Kamila Shamsie 'Rosarita is transcendent . . . a testament to Desai’s enduring genius as a writer' - The Guardian 'Tantalising' - Financial Times From three times Booker-shortlisted author Anita Desai, Rosarita is a beautiful, haunting novel that explores memory, grief, and a young woman’s determination to forge her own path. A young student sits on a bench in a park in San Miguel, Mexico. Bonita is away from her home in India to learn Spanish. She is alone, somewhere she has no connection to. It is bl... continue
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Salvar el fuego by Guillermo Arriaga ES
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Una historia de violencia en el México contemporáneo donde el amor y la redención aún son posibles.
Marina, una mujer casada, con tres hijos y una vida familiar resuelta, coreógrafa de cierto prestigio, se ve involucrada en un amorío improbable con un hombre impensable. Salvar el fuego retrata dos Méxicos completamente escindidos uno del otro, donde Marina, que pertenece a la clase social más alta, se vincula con un hombre al extremo de la sociedad.
Esta es una novela que retrata las contradicciones de un país y las contradicci... 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
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Señales que precederán al fin del mundo by Yuri Herrera ES
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Señales que precederán al fin del mundo es, sin duda, una de las novelas más singulares de entre todas las que se han escrito en español en este cambio de siglo. Y también una de las más bellas y precisas. Como ya sucedía en su anterior novela: Trabajos del reino, Yuri Herrera no escribe «simplemente» sobre México y la frontera, sino que crea su México a través de historias y leyendas del pasado y del presente. Y traza con exactitud el mapa de un territorio que es aún más gigantesco, hecho tanto de lo que está sobre la tierra y en lo real como de lo que está bajo ella y pertenece a lo mitológi... continue
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Signal To Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
A beautiful new edition of Moreno-Garcia's stunning debut, featuring an illustrated cover by legendary artist Jim Tierney Mexico City, 1988. Long before iTunes or MP3s, you said "I love you" with a mixtape. Meche, awkward and fifteen, discovers how to cast spells using music, and with her friends Sebastian and Daniela will piece together their broken families, and even find love... Two decades after abandoning the metropolis, Meche returns for her estranged father's funeral, reviving memories from her childhood she thought she buried a long time ago. What really happened back then? Is there an... continue
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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
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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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Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling by Jason De León EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
WINNER OF THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION A TIME 10 Best Nonfiction Book of 2024 • An NPR Book We Love 2024 • A New York Times Notable Book of 2024 • A Boston Globe Best Book of 2024 “A work of extraordinary reportage and compassion...[it] will shock you, move you, and leave you changed.” —Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Evicted and Poverty, by America “An enlightening, frightening, unforgettable read.” —Sandra Cisneros, bestselling author of The House on Mango Street An intense, intimate and first-of-its-kind look at the world of hu... continue
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Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Still Born, Guadalupe Nettel's fourth novel, treats one of the most consequential decisions of early adulthood - whether or not to have children - with the intelligence and originality that have won her international acclaim. Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family. Laura has taken the drastic decision to be sterilized, but as time goes by Alina becomes drawn to the idea of becoming a mother. When Alina's daughter survives childbirth - after a diagnosis that predicted the opposite - a... continue
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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