Part diary, part fable, Loop is a love story narrated from the point of view of a woman who waits for her boyfriend Jonás to return from a trip to Spain. They met when she was recovering from an accident and he had just lost his mother. Soon after that, they were living together. She waits for him as a sort of contemporary Penelope who, instead of knitting only to then un-knit, she writes and erases her thoughts in a notebook: Proust, a dwarf, a...

Three stories portray life in a poor neighborhood in Tijuana, including watching street life as it passes, the visit of a teenage tourist, and a case of escalating violence that goes from rape to revenge murder to a brutal police response.

Desde que mató en defensa propia a uno de los siete hermanos Castro, conocidos traficantes, la vida del beisbolista David Valenzuela corre gran peligro. Perseguido por narcos, guerrilleros, el Comandante de la Policía Judicial y los sanguinarios parientes de su víctima, el fugitivo también es acosado por una bella mujer que lo desea y los consejos de una voz interior que dice ser su parte reencarnable. After killing in self-defense one of the...

"Where the Air is Clear, Carlos Fuentes's first novel, opens with a metaphorical description of Mexico City and the challenges facing its inhabitants and quickly becomes an unsparing portrayal of the upper class. Departing from a traditional linear narrative, Fuentes constructs his novel around a series of encounters with members of this world, including Federico Robles, an ambitious self-made millionaire; Rodrigo Pola, a writer whose father was executed...

"This third book by Mexican author Rivas is a story of the writer Beatriz, as well as the many other women named Beatriz whose stories are interwoven with her own. The narrative opens with an engaging scene, in which the writer Beatriz receives a letter from a man condemned to death row in the United States. The stories that follow are interconnected, in both obvious and oblique ways, carrying readers to multiple corners of a globalized world. One...