Mexico : a traveler's literary companion / edited by C.M. Mayo - Berkeley, CA : Whereabouts Press ; c2006 - 238 p. : map ; 19 cm - Traveler's literary companions .

Big Caca's revenge / Malintzin of the maquilas / The silent words / According to Evaristo / The green bottle / Lady of the Seas / Rancho Santa Inés: fast! / Identity hour or, What photos would you take of the endless city? / One-way street / Oh, Polanco! / The Emperor in Miravalle / Day and night / Huaquechula / Aunt Elena / Banquets / And one Wednesday / It is nothing of mine / Fata Morgana / Twins / Tarantula / She has reddish hair and her name is Sabina / Vigil in Tehuantepec / Tenebrae service / Swift as desire / Daniel Reveles -- Carlos Fuentes -- Inés Arredondo -- Jesús Gardea -- Ricardo Elizondo Elizondo -- Agustín Cadena -- C. M. Mayo -- Carlos Monsiváis -- Juan Villoro -- Guadalupe Loaeza -- Fernando del Paso -- Mónica Lavín -- Pedro Ángel Palou -- Ángeles Mastretta -- Raúl Mejía -- Martha Cerda -- Araceli Ardón -- Bruno Estañol -- Ilan Stavans -- Raymundo Hernández-Gil -- Julieta Campos -- Alberto Ruy Sánchez -- Rosario Castellanos -- Laura Esquivel.

Mexico has long been the top travel destination for Americans. But until now, there has not been such a panoramic vision of offered by some of Mexico's finest contemporary writers of fiction and literary prose. Here are writings — many translated for the first time — that bring you to the people of the beaches, the deserts, jungles, snow-capped mountains, and megacities. The voices are rich and diverse, the stories enthralling and strange. These writings shatter stereotypes as they provide a rollicking journey from the Pacific to the Gulf, from Yucatan to the U.S.-Mexico border, from humble ranchos to a fabulous mountaintop castle.


Translated from the Spanish to English

9781883513153


Short stories, Mexican
Mexican fiction--20th century

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