Set in the Mexican circus world, this novel tells the tale of a group of two-bit performers who take over an abandoned town as the ideal place to turn their lives around.
Two people--an orphan looking for a life and a man in the grip of a fantasy--are part of the strange history of the town of Tula, a place that is a throwback to another age.
This is a contemporary fiction, now in English, from a rising star among Mexican novelists. In tiny Icamole, an almost deserted village in Mexico's desert north, the librarian, Lucio, is also the village's only reader. Though it has not rained for a year in Icamole, when Lucio's son Remigio draws the body of a thirteen-year-old girl from his well, ...
The seven bridges of Knigsberg, the dilemma that surrounds them and the obsession they arouse in a woman and a boy, join Monterrey with World War II Europe. While the city waits for the Red Armys invasion, the now pick-pocket but tomorrow student of Salamanca, dying mayor, betrayed prince and Prussian general, gathers his friends behind the ...
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