"Más gente así" is a vibrant portrait of our society and a chronicle of our recent history. Here, we are once again invited to interact with the friends and peers we met in Gente así: Julio Scherer, García Márquez, and Joaquín Díaz Canedo. Unashamedly, the author reveals their manias, who and what they envy, and what they gossip about. "I am only an adapter of stories," a fact we can attest to when we identify the author as one of the protagonists...

Mexico has long been the top travel destination for Americans. But until now, there has not been such a panoramic vision of Mexico 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...

The internationally acclaimed winner of the Cervantes Prize presents a stunning novel about family and love across an expanse of Mexican life.

Presents twenty Mexican stories from the early 20th century, including tales of fantasy, life in Mexico, history, the city, and private life by such authors as Carlos Fuentes, Elena Garro, and Juan Rulfo. Presenta veinte pisos mexicanos de principios del siglo 20, incluyendo cuentos de fantasía, la vida en México, la historia, la ciudad y la vida privada de autores como Carlos Fuentes, Elena Garro y Juan Rulfo.

""México, tierra unaudita" is a compendium of nineteen short stories by Mexican journalist Aníbel Santiago, revealing gladiators who control prisons, children who study in a Dantesque city, aphrodisiac nightclubs, enigmatic robberies in churches, and much more."--latinamericanbooks.com Un maestro le confió a Aníbal Santiago cómo arrancar una historia al mundo: "Encuentra gente extraordinaria en lugares extraordinarios viviendo cosas extraordinarias"....

"In the transition of Mexican fiction from direct statements of nationalism and social protest to a concentration on cosmopolitanism, the works of Rulfo hold a unique position. These stories of a rural people caught in the play of natural forces are not simply an interior examination of the phenomena of their world; they are written for the larger purpose of showing the actions of humans in broad terms of reality."--Amazon.

"An anthology of short stories about the North American wilderness"--

A short story collection of nightmares, dreams, desire and visions centered around the Chicana experience. The stunning, star-reviewed V. Castro weaves urban legend, folklore, life experience and heartache in this intimate anthology of modern horrors. From the lauded author of The Queen of the Cicadas (which picked up starred reviews from PW, Kirkus and Booklist who called her "a dynamic and innovative voice") comes a short story collection of nightmares,...