The legendary title novella from one of Mexico's most influential writers is published here in English for the first time on the 100th anniversary of his birth. This lost masterwork, collected with his previously untranslated stories, marks a landmark event in world literature. Juan Rulfo (1917-1986), Mexico's most important and influential author of the twentieth century, received numerous awards in his lifetime, including the esteemed Cervantes...

Identical twin spinsters, Gloria and Constitución Gamal, enjoy their successful tailoring business in rural Mexico and take particular thrills in confusing people. When a new suitor arrives, one sister decides she wants all the benefits of true romance, and the competition between them boils.

"Todo parecía posible en México a finales de los años cuarenta, recuerda Carlos, el narrador y protagonista de esta novela ... Ninguna experiencia, sin embargo, fue tan intensa para el niño que estaba a punto de convertirse en adolescente como el enamoramiento puro y arrebatado que vivió en cuanto conoció a la madre de su amigo Jim. La historia de esa iniciación amorosa, de su deseo imposible e incurable, que ahora reconstruye Carlos, es...

A drunken confession. Years dissolve in a blur of sex, drugs, and violence. With echoes of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, Héctor Aguilar Camín's Day In, Day Out explores the lives of two darkly alluring sisters and the men pulled into their orbit. while attending the funeral of an old acquaintance, dissolute writer Serrano runs into a former rival, a doctor of criminology known simply as el Pato. The encounter throws Serrano back to the erotically...