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"A 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"
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 but invisible to her best friend Tristán, a charming if faded soap opera star, even though she's been in love with him since...
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
196 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"Set in Mexico in the 1970s, the novel charts the literary and romantic escapades of two Chilean aspiring writers, employing a range of genres, from epistolary novel to science fiction to satire"--
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Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2010
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609 p. ; 21 cm.
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Español
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La novela narra la bu�squeda de la poetisa mexicana Cesa�rea Tinajero, por parte de dos jo�venes poetas fundadores de un movimiento de poesi�a llamado los real visceralistas, el chileno Arturo Belano y el mexicano Ulises Lima.
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....
5) Amulet
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
184 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is September 1968 and the Mexican student movement is about to run head-on into the repressive right-wing government of Mexico: hundreds of young people will soon die. When the army invades the university, one woman hides in a fourth-floor ladies' room and for twelve days she is the only person left on campus. Staring at the floor, she recounts her bohemian life among the young poets of Mexico City—inventing and reinventing freely—and along...
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English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a riveting noir about a daydreaming secretary, a lonesome thug, and the mystery of the missing woman that brings them together. 1970s Mexico City. Maite is a secretary who lives for one thing: the latest issue of Secret Romance. While student protests and political unrest consume the city, Maite escapes into stories of passion and danger. Her next-door neighbor, Leonora, a beautiful...
7) Amuleto
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Publisher
Vintage Espanol, una division de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
127 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
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"Auxilio Lacouture, "madre de todos los mexicanos", uruguaya de nacimiento y residente en M�exico D. F., est�a abonada a los trabajos humildes y espor�adicos durante el d�ia e incansablemente inmersa en la bohemia de la ciudad durante la noche. Todo cambia para ella el 18 de septiembre de 1968, cuando el ej�ercito toma posesi�on del campus de la Universidad Nacional Aut�onoma de M�exico y ella queda encerrada en los ba�nos de la...
8) Adán en Edén
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Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
177 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
Español
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Adan Gorozpe es un arribista, y lo reconoce sin ambages. Su matrimonio con Priscila, codiciada heredera del poderoso empresario Celestino Holguin (mejor conocido como el Rey del Bizcocho), fue un afortunado lance que, en palabras llanas, se llama dar el braguetazo, y lo llevo de pobreton pasante de la carrera de Leyes a influyente abogado empresarial dueno de vidas y haciendas, aun mas encumbrado que su suegro. Como le queda claro que la dicha conyugal,...
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