Carmen Boullosa

A young woman encounters strange events in her Mexican hometown in this novel by an author who "immerses us...in her wickedly funny and imaginative world" (Latina).
Leaving Tabasco tells of the coming of age of Delmira Ulloa, raised in an all-female home in Agustini, in the Mexican province of Tabasco. In Agustini it is not unusual to see your grandmother float above the bed when she sleeps, or to purchase torrential rains...

"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 chapters, Eve decides to tell her version of the story of Genesis: she was not created from Adam's rib, nor was she expelled for taking the apple from the serpent; the story of Abel and Cain isn't true, neither are those of the Flood and the Tower of Babel . . . In brilliant prose, Carmen...

"Russia, 1905. Behind the gates of the Karenin Palace, Sergei, son of Anna Karenina, meets Tolstoy in his dreams and finds reminders of his mother everywhere: in the almost-living portrait the Tsar intends to acquire and the opium-infused manuscripts she wrote just before her death, one of which opens a trapdoor to a wild feminist fairytale. Across the city, Clementine, an anarchist seamstress, and Father Gapón, the charismatic leader of the proletariat,...

En el contexto de una Nueva Espana que apenas despierta a su vida de conquistada, y que se apresta a comenzar de lleno la nueva cultura del mestizaje, Carmen Boullosa borda con manos de eperta una ficcion que tiene mucho de verdad y otro tanto de imposible. En Duerme presenta el intrincado personaje de Claire, una mujer del "Viejo Mundo" que gusta de vestir como hombre y vivir en tesitura masculina, en la orilla del riesgo, viajera en tierras recien...

This novel takes place in a future society called Atlantis, whose government wants to wipe out all human history from the memory of the "survivors of the future". The use of language is illegal. Lear, a paleographer, clandestinely investigates a document that will transport her to colonial Mexico. Esta propuesta literaria recoge tres manuscritos en un texto: la crónica escrita por Hernando de Rivas en el siglo XVI, donde narra en latín la verdadera...

Traces the history of Mexico's failed war on drug trafficking from 1910 to the present, and argues that the violence and corruption it causes are due to drug policies in the United States, but also to willing collaborators in Mexico.

"Delicately crafted, intensely visual, deeply personal stories explore the nature of memory, family ties, and the difficult imbalances of love"--

Residents on both sides of the Rio Grande, or the Rio Bravo as it's known in Mexico, have suffered horrific violence as numerous peoples have sought control of the land. In 1836, in what is now Texas, a young girl named Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanches who behaved "like vengeful drug dealers," spearing, scalping and castrating their victims. Spared death, she was adopted by the tribe, only to be "saved" twenty years later by the Texas...