In 1980, with the Sandinistas newly in power, tailor and pig farmer Bernardo Martinez witnesses an extraordinary thing: an otherworldly glow about the statue of the Virgin Mary in the church where he works as sacristan. Soon the Holy...
Shortlisted for the 2011 Guardian First Book Award and the 2012 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize Tochtli lives in a palace. He loves hats, samurai, guillotines and dictionaries, and what he wants more than anything right now is a new pet...
An epic and heartbreaking love story that will leave no one untouched. Like Fuentes’s masterpiece The Death of Artemio Cruz, the action in this novel begins in the state of Veracruz and moves to Mexico City. From 1905 to...
From the universally acclaimed author of Breath, Eyes, Memory and Krik? Krak!, a brilliant, deeply moving work of fiction that explores the world of a “dew breaker”—a torturer—a man whose brutal crimes in the country of his birth lie...
Raised in a Boston suburb by his aristocratic Guatemalan mother, Roger Graetz enters into an obsessive relationship with Flor, the young Guatemalan sent by Roger’s grandmother to live with him and his mother. Clever, beautiful For attends Wellesley...
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