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"This seventh installment in our beloved Very Christmas series is a celebration of the Mexican Yuletide spirit. Replete with mouthwatering Nochebuena meals, mysterious felines, multicolored boxes, marvelous sweet rolls, and many a bedside tale, A Very Mexican Christmas is sure to delight, warm, and astonish by turns. You'll find spellbiridng work by some of Mexico's most important writers, contemporary favorites, as well as fresh translations of classic...
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Twenty-seven Mexican short stories. In David Martin del Campo's Little Mister Chair-man, a paralyzed boy describes the world from the perspective of his wheelchair, Sergio Pitol's The Panther is on two connected dreams separated by 20 years, and Carlos Fuente's The Mandarin is on an aging aristocrat.
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"An anthology of short stories about the North American wilderness"--
The North American landscape, in its rich and rugged variety, has inspired an equally wide and deep range of fiction over the past centuries. Diana Fuss has gathered a rich collection of timeless classics and contemporary discoveries summoning up our close and imagined encounters with all things wild.
From the nineteenth century’s Washington Irving (“Rip Van Winkle”) to...
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"This bilingual anthology - including sixteen of Mexico's finest writers born after 1945 - offers a glimpse of the rich tapestry of Mexican fiction. From small-town dramas to tales of urban savagery, this is a major event in contemporary Latin-American fiction. Readers will meet a Mariachi singer suffering from mediocrity, an embalmed man positioned in front of the TV, a man's lifelong imaginary friend, and the town prostitute whose funeral draws...