Ghosts of the Palace of Blue Tiles: Los fantasmas del Palacio de los Azulejos by Jorge Fernández Granados
Sacred Lake Poems by Bill Frayer
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Life in Mexico observed by someone who is bursting with affection for his new country.
I have reviewed a lot of fiction and non-fiction books for Mexico Connect, but I...
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Notes from Exile
Mexico is a haven for exiles where the braver or weaker or more foolish can find themselves or re-create themselves or… lose themselves.
T. M. Spooner's novel, Notes from Exile, is a lakeside st...
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Notes from Exile By T. M. Spooner Floricanto Press, 2006
Mexico is a haven for exiles where the braver or weaker or more foolish can find themselves or re-create themselves or… lose themselves.
read moreLoving Pedro Infante by Denise Chavez
"What can I tell you about Pedro Infante? If you're a Mejicana or Mejicano and don't know who he is, you should be tied to a hot stove with yucca rope and beaten with sharp dry corn husks as you stand in a vat of soggy fideos. If your racial and cultural ethnicity is Other, then it's about time you learned about the most famous of Mexican singers and actors."
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Changing Dreams: A Generation of Oaxaca's Woodcarvers
You can't isolate yourself. Modernity arrives and replaces what you have.
>Changing Dreams by Vicki Ragan and Shepard Barbash is a thoughtfully written and provocative book - one which should...
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The Pearl: a novella by John Steinbeck
In film or fiction, The Pearl is a good story. It is one of those stories so simple that it becomes profound.
read moreMexico, A Love Story: women write about the Mexican experience
Mexico is a country infused with goddess energy. When you're in her arms, you want to stay there, cradled in her warm, moist smells, re-charged by her underbelly of pulsating earth energy, and sustained by a wisdom born of a history filled with extraordinary achievements and major defeats.
read moreThe Damned by John D. MacDonald
The Damned tells the story of several characters waiting to take the ferry across the Rio Conchos to then heard north to the Rio Grande where they could cross on the bridge between Matamoros and Brownsville.
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The Line/La Línea
"A story filled with sex, violence, and drugs, even love, a story of treachery, where only power and money ultimately are valued."
Author Belden Butterfield was born in Argentina, educat...
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Mexico, the Trick is Living Here by Julia Taylor
Julia Taylor's ebook, The Trick is Living Here, is an informative reference on getting settled in Mexico as well as a delight to read. It isn't everyday that you find a good source of solid, factual information coupled with a wry sense of humor.
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The Four Agreements And The Mastery Of Love
The Four Agreements has now sold over 3,000,000 copies, was on the New York Times bestseller list for five years, was featured twice in "O" The Oprah Magazine, and ranked #30 on a USA Today list of top...
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Frida - A Novel By Barbara Mujica
Throughout the novel, we see the forceful character of Frida displaying itself
The largest Frida Kahlo exhibit ever has just ended in Mexico City. Timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of her b...
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Georg Rauch: A Clear View All The Way To The Horizon
After thirty years as an artist in Mexico (and close to 2000 paintings spanning more than fifty years), Georg has been adopted as a "Mexican" artist. Here in central Mexico he found peace.
read moreNo Country For Old Men By Cormac Mccarthy
Cormac McCarthy is best known for his Border Trilogy, three novels set along the Texas-Mexico border, the first of which, All the Pretty Horses, is set almost entirely in Mexico, south of the Te...
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Memories of my melancholy whores: a novel
The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.
read moreCrossing Over: A Mexican Family On The Migrant Trail
Great books are the hardest kind to review. There's just too much temptation to toss out the usual lauds and accolades which make for fine back cover blurbs. And then there's the trap of comparison to other great authors and works. CROSSING OVER: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail is one of those great books.
read moreAccidental Paintings: Photographs by Carol Stein
Here's a most unusual collection of photographs and Mexico Connect is delighted to bring them to you. They are all, despite the title, photos taken in San Miguel de Allende where photographer Carol Stein visited last year. All of them exhibit odd and striking views of the town as well as the unusual abstract approach that Ms. Stein brings to her work.
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The Guaymas Chronicles: La Mandadera by David E. Stuart
Although it's about Mexico, this one starts off in Ecuador in the 1960s where the author was doing doctoral fieldwork for a dissertation on haciendas in that country. His work took him to a remote research station on the side of a mountain seventy miles from electricity, running water, telephones, etc. One day while riding his horse along the side of a gorge, with the bottom of a canyon almost a thousand feet below him, the horse stumbled and fell. On its way over the edge it rolled over Stuart and disappeared, leaving him badly crippled. He was rescued and eventually found his way to Guaymas, on the coast of the Sea of Cortez, in Mexico, where his fiancé, Iliana, lived. Thus begins the story of his recuperation and, at the same time, the exploration of Mexican society and customs which is described here.
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Queen of the South by Arturo Perez Reverte
The story line concerns a young Mexican girl, Teresa Mendoza, 23 years old, who is in love with a Chicano Cessna pilot who flies cocaine and hashish from Colombia to locations in Texas. It's a dangerous trade to be in and Teresa's lover, Güero Dávila, is well aware of the risks, not only from drug enforcement agents but also from rival narcotraficantes. With the former, the risks are imprisonment. With the latter, the penalty is death should one lose a shipment or not play the game the way the bosses want it played.
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Mexico, a Traveller's Literary Companion by C. M. Mayo
I've reviewed over a hundred books for Mexico Connect. These have covered the gamut of topics, all related to this country - fiction, travel, history, living in Mexico, moving to Mexico, biographies, city profiles and a few volumes difficult to categorize. I thought I had covered just about all aspects of the subject. Imagine my surprise, then, to suddenly be reminded of a sizeable slice of Mexicana that I had barely touched. Discovering it was like opening a door and walking into a brightly lit room filled with all kinds of literary treasures, all of which were produced in Mexico by active homegrown writers, many of whom are probably known to Mexican readers but not necessarily to outsiders like myself who need much more familiarity with Spanish in order to appreciate the breadth and scope of this country's literature.
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The Salvation of La Purisima by T. M. Spooner
The two cultures - Mexican and U.S. - come together in a thoughtful way in this interesting novel, which is set in both countries. The story concerns a group of Mexican illegal immigrants who travel north in May each year to work in the cherry orchards in northern Michigan. They are from the village of La Purísima in Michoacán. It's a community inhabited solely by elderly people and women and children during the picking season when all the men head north on what has become their annual rite of passage. It's perhaps more than that.
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Agave Marias: Border Crossers, Boundary Breakers by the Lake Chapala Women Writers
Here's an unusual volume with ten individual authors, each of whom is independent of the other nine except for the fact they all reside - either full or part-time - in the Lake Chapala area of Mexico. Their book consists of some 45 or more pieces of fiction and non-fiction plus a poem or three. The non-fiction includes travel tales, accounts of significant events in the authors' past lives, recollections of interesting people and other offbeat memoirs and anecdotes.
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Star Snake - stories for a culture of peace
"Star Snake" is a short story about a young Aztec warrior and a short history of the rise of the Aztec Empire. It was written by the Austrian writer Martin Auer as part of his collection of "stories of peace" and dedicated to the UNESCO's "Manifesto 2000 for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence."
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In their sixth book, authors/designers Karen Witynski and Joe P. Carr travel through Mexico an...
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