Mexico

A brilliant, feminist twist on the Book of Genesis from Carmen Boullosa. What if everything they've told us about the Garden of Eden was wrong? Faced with what appears to be an apocryphal manuscript containing ten books and ninety-one parts, Eve decides...

A "wholly unique" and "uncompromising" literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man, and the people who love him in every form he takes (Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last...

A junkie looking for one last fix in a town full of ghosts .This is a ghost story. A junkie has gone to El Zapotal to die - to rent a room in this crumbling backwater, melt into one last fix, and not come back. For someone so ready to no longer be alive,...

Still Born, Guadalupe Nettel's fourth novel, treats one of the most consequential decisions of early adulthood - whether or not to have children - with the intelligence and originality that have won her international acclaim. Alina and Laura are...

Shimmering writing depicting California's Central Valley, the first book in a decade from a virtuoso story writer. These exquisite stories are mostly set in the 1980s in the small towns that surround Fresno. With an unflinching hand, Munoz depicts the...

An artist races to finish his forgery of a masterpiece while held captive in surreal, menacing splendor.Jose Federico Burgos is a failed painter turned forger trapped in surreal, an architectural masterpiece hidden behind high walls, an impish vagabond,...

Nellie Campobello, a prominent Mexican writer and "novelist of the Revolution," played an important role in Mexico's cultural renaissance in the 1920s and early 1930s, along with such writers as Rafael Munoz and Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes and artists Diego...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374531805Author Carlos FuentesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

A fairy tale run amok, The Taiga Syndrome follows an unnamed Ex-Detective as she searches for a couple that has fled to the far reaches of the Earth. A betrayed husband is convinced by a brief telegram that his second ex-wife wants him to track her down...

Winner PEN Translates Award (UK)Recovering from an unspecified accident, the narrator of Loop finds herself in waiting rooms of different kinds: airport departure lounges, doctors' surgeries, and above all at home, awaiting the return of her boyfriend,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948830676Author Juan Gomez BarcenaFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Open LetterPublisher Open Letter

Marie's job as a museum guard at the National Gallery in London offers her the life she always wanted, one of invisibility and quiet contemplation. But amid the hushed corridors surge currents of history and violence, paintings whose power belie their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374511715Author Carlos FuentesFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646222452Author Daniel Saldana ParisFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint CatapultPublisher CatapultWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 148mm * 23mm

Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor-an attractive married woman and mother-while Polo dreams about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593544808Author Alvaro EnrigueFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798987926499Author Veronica Gerber BicecciFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Sundial HousePublisher Sundial House

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558613119Author Dahlia de la CerdaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646221998Author Brenda LozanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint CatapultPublisher CatapultWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 16mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593544792Author Alvaro EnrigueFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 340g

A bitter drunk forsakes civilization and takes to the Mexican jungle, trapping animals, selling their pelts to buy liquor for colossal benders, and slowly rotting away in his fetid hut. His neighbors, a clan of the Lacodon tribe of Chiapas, however, see...

Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor-an attractive married woman and mother-while Polo dreams about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608012657Author Hern�n Lara ZavalaFormat PaperbackPage Count 205Imprint University of New Orleans PressPublisher University of New Orleans Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682359105Author Rosa FloresFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Strategic Book PublishingPublisher Strategic Book PublishingWeight(grams) 458g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644213711Author Clyo MendozaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 249g

In her most experimental work to date, Karla Marrufo Huchim explores universal themes with appreciable specificity: loneliness, family angst, memory loss—from a perspective belonging singularly to a native of the Yucatán Peninsula. Mayo’s unnamed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637680292Author Diego Gerard MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Autumn House PressPublisher Autumn House PressWeight(grams) 229g

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