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7 books

A Change of Skin

A Holy Week journey from Mexico City toward Veracruz exposes four travellers' relationships and the histories carried beneath their conversations.

Literary fiction

Burnt Water

Carlos Fuentes

Mexico City binds these stories together as unequal lives, historical shadows and unsettling fantasies meet in streets and private rooms.

Short stories

Screen adaptation

Captain from Castile

Samuel Shellabarger

A young Spaniard joins Cortés's expedition, entering the ambitions and violence surrounding the sixteenth-century capture of Mexico City.

Historical fiction

Gods of Jade and Shadow

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

In 1920s Yucatán, Casiopea releases a Mayan god of death and begins a dangerous journey toward Mexico City and the mythic underworld.

Fantasy

Screen adaptation

The Children of Sánchez

Oscar Lewis

A Mexico City family tells overlapping stories of loyalty, grievance and survival, giving individual voices room within an intimate historical household portrait.

Nonfiction

The Power of the Dog

Don Winslow

DEA agent Art Keller confronts a growing drug empire in a sprawling crime novel linking Mexico, the United States and Central America.

Crime fiction

The Savage Detectives

Roberto Bolaño

Young poets rebel in Mexico City before a search leads into Sonora, opening a restless story told through the memories of scattered witnesses.

Literary fiction

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