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The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
  • Author(s): Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • Location(s): Yucatan Peninsula
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy

Carlota Moreau: A young woman, growing up in a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from the conflict and strife of the Yucatán peninsula, the only daughter of a genius – or a madman. Montgomery Laughton: A melancholic overseer with...

The Death of Artemio Cruz

The Death of Artemio Cruz
  • Author(s): Carlos Fuentes
  • Location(s): Mexico
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

As the novel opens, Artemio Cruz, the all-powerful newspaper magnate and land baron, lies confined to his bed and, in dreamlike flashes, recalls the pivotal episodes of his life. Carlos Fuentes manipulates the ensuing kaleidoscope of images with dazzling...

The Happy Hammock

The Happy Hammock
  • Author(s): Kathrin Lake
  • Location(s): Mexico
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Comedy, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kathrin, a foodie writer stuck in a corporate job, bonds with John through a mutual hatred of the cold. They discover paradise in a small town in Mexico and after three days naively buy a house there… or did...

The Hot Country

The Hot Country
  • Author(s): Robert Olen Butler
  • Location(s): Mexico
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1910s

April 1914 and war correspondent Christopher Marlowe Kit Cobb arrives in Vera Cruz, Mexico, to cover the country’s civil war. A passionate believer in the power of a free press, Kit is no mere observer. He assumes a false...

The Labyrinth of Solitude

The Labyrinth of Solitude
  • Author(s): Octavio Paz
  • Location(s): Mexico
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Octavio Paz has long been acknowledged as Mexico’s foremost writer and critic. In this international classic, Paz has written one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico and its people, character, and culture. Compared to...

The Legend of the Poinsettia

The Legend of the Poinsettia
  • Author(s): Tomie dePaola
  • Location(s): Mexico
  • Genre(s): Children

In Mexico, the poinsettia is called flor de la Nochebuenao flower of the Holy Night. At Christmastime, the flower blooms and flourishes, the quite exquisite red stars lighting up the countryside. This Mexican legend tells how the poinsettia came...

The Murmur of Bees

The Murmur of Bees
  • Author(s): Sofía Segovia
  • Location(s): Mexico
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

From the day that old Nana Reja found a baby abandoned under a bridge, the life of a small Mexican town forever changed. Disfigured and covered in a blanket of bees, little Simonopio is for some locals the stuff...

The Power and the Glory

The Power and the Glory
  • Author(s): Graham Greene
  • Location(s): Mexico
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the ‘whisky priest’, is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his chances getting fewer. But compassion and...

The Sanctuary

The Sanctuary
  • Author(s): Emma Haughton
  • Location(s): Mexico
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Very few people get the opportunity to stay here. And some don’t get to leave … Zoey doesn’t remember anything about last night. But she knows something went badly wrong. For she is no longer in New York. She’s...

The Story of My Teeth

The Story of My Teeth
  • Author(s): Valeria Luiselli
  • Location(s): Mexico City
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

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