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Alvaro Enrigue
From the visionary author of Sudden Death, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story set in sixteenth-century Mexico
A hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story in sixteenth-century Mexico, from the visionary author…
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'An Aztec West Wing' GUARDIAN 'A triumph' FINANCIAL TIMES 'A mischievous fantasy' TLS…
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"Enrigue's genius lies in his ability to bring readers close to its tangled knot of priests, mercenaries, warriors and princesses while adding a pinch of biting humor." --Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Los…
As Caravaggio, the libertine of Italy’s art world, and the loutish Spanish poet Quevedo aim to settle scores over the course of one brutal tennis match, the old European order…
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In Decency, two aspiring guerrilla fighters explode a bomb in the United States consulate in Guadalajara. During their difficult escape they come across the past that led them to that…
The novel starts with the vindication of writing and the construction of a landscape. That landscape is the border between Mexico and the United States, and in it will appear…
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Poet de Quevedo meets his eternal ally in a journey across the Pyrenees. Caravaggio crosses the Piazza of San Luis in Rome, with two servants carrying the painting that will…
Luis Sepulveda
"First published in English in 1993 by Souvenir Press Ltd, London." --Title page verso.
Originally published as Hipotermia by Anagrama, Barcelona and Mexico City, 2005.
First published in Spain in 2013 by Anagrama as Muerte saubita –Title page verso.
Jose Revueltas
A classic of Mexican literature in the twentieth century, The Hole is a dazzlingly devastating novella
