Books set in Mexico (11)
1.
Aura by Carlos Fuentes ES
Rating: 2.3 4 Votes
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
"Lees ese anuncio: una oferta de esa naturaleza no se hace todos los días. Lees y relees el aviso. Parece dirigido a ti, a nadie más": asícomienza Aura, novela hechizante, donde lo verdadero es lo imposible, donde el amor a la vez sacrifica y devuelve la vida, y la inmortalidad tiene un precio que algunos están dispuestos a pagar.Pocos textos en la literatura mexicana de imaginación tienen la belleza y la expresividad de este relato en que los procedimientos de la ficción están llevados a sus últimas consecuencias. Las imágenes del sueño alteran la realidad o la realidad se ve contaminada por ... continue
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Set in MEXICO
Male author
Recommended: 03 Nov 2022
2.
Fiesta en la madriguera by Juan Pablo Villalobos ES
0 Ratings
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
A Tochtli le gustan los sombreros, los diccionarios, los samuráis, las guillotinas y los franceses. Pero Tochtli es un niño y ahora lo que quiere es un nuevo animal para su zoológico privado: un hipopótamo enano de Liberia. Su padre, Yolcaut, un narcotraficante en la cúspide del poder, está dispuesto a cumplir todos sus caprichos. No importa que se trate de un animal exótico en peligro de extinción. Porque Yolcaut siempre puede. Tochtli vive en un palacio. Una madriguera recubierta de oro en la que convive con trece o quizá catorce... continue
3.
Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor ES
Rating: 3.9 10 Votes
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
The English-language debut of one of the most thrilling and accomplished young Mexican writers
4.
I'll Sell You a Dog by Juan Pablo Villalobos EN
0 Ratings
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Everything that can be done to fend off the boredom of retirement and old age, while still holding a beer.
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Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia EN
Rating: 3.5 71 Votes
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “It’s Lovecraft meets the Brontës in Latin America, and after a slow-burn start Mexican Gothic gets seriously weird.”—The Guardian IN DEVELOPMENT AS A HULU ORIGINAL LIMITED SERIES PRODUCED BY KELLY RIPA AND MARK CONSUELOS • WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD • NOMINATED FOR THE BRAM STOKER AWARD ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, NPR, The Washington Post, Tordotcom, Marie Claire, Vox, Mashable, Men’s Health, Library Journal, Book Riot, LibraryReads An isolated mansion. A chillingly charismatic aristocrat. And a brave socialite drawn to expose the... continue
8.
Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
A streetwise heroine crosses from Mexico to USA to find her brother in this mythologizing novel by Juan Rulfo's heir.
9.
The Body Where I was Born by Guadalupe Nettel EN
Rating: 4 1 Vote
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
10.
The Forgery by Ave Barrera EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
An artist races to finish his forgery of a masterpiece while held captive in surreal, menacing splendor.
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