Heavens on earth
(Book)

Originally published by Alfaguara in Mexico City, Mexico as Cielos de la tierra, 1997.

Lear, officially known as 24, lives in L'Atlàntide, a post-apocalyptic utopian society placing increasing limits on the use of language. Lear transcribes the writings of Don Hernando, a 16th century Aztec priest living in the early days of colonial Mexico City, and of Estela, a historical anthropologist and first translator of Don Hernando's work, who lives in the late 20th century Mexico City. Though separated by time and space, Lear and Estela find strength in Hernando's words, ultimately rebelling against their respective societies in a struggle for remembrance. -- from back cover.

"Three narrators from different historical eras are each engaged in preserving history in Carmen Boullosa's Heavens on Earth. As her narrators sense and interact with each other over time and space, Boullosa challenges the primacy of recorded history and asserts literature and language's power to transcend the barriers of time and space in vivid, urgent prose"--Publisher's website.