In the first book of Szanto’s trilogy, a Canadian lives a year in a Mexican village and finds his life and beliefs progressively subverted and reconstituted.

The Underside of Stones: A Story Cycle

SZANTO, George

Literature & Fiction

HarperCollins, Publishers

Narrative Taste and Social Perspectives: The Matter of Quality

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

MCCLELLAND STEWART

Not Working

Macmillan

During the 1985 earthquake, as the churches shook, straw and terracotta statues of saints came crashing to the ground. The Christian garb of a number of these statues fell away, revealing stone effigies of pre-Hispanic Gods. The writers who speak in this book explore what is concealed by the façades of political institutions and cultural repute?what lies hidden inside the statues of saints.  From the perspective of a Canadian who knows Mexico intimately, George Szanto spoke with Mexican fiction writers. In telling their stories these writers disclose a civilization, a hidden Mexico beyond its sunny beaches and steep pyramids. The intent of Szanto's essays, along with his interview with Carlos Fuentes, is to provide insight into the daily life of Mexico's people and the fears and hopes by which they perceive and practice their lives.  Elena Poniatowska has spent a lifetime revealing Mexicans to themselves. She believes that the Chiapas rebellion will changes the course of Mexican history. Subcomandante Marcos invited her to interview him. Paco Ignacio Taibo II's focus is Mexico City's politico-criminal underbelly. A professor of history he is the author of some fifty books, including detective novels. Marëa Luisa Puga, winner of Mexico's highest literary award, sees the division between Mexico City and the rest of the country as an immense threat to a unified Mexican nation. Juan Villoro, the youngest writer Szanto speaks with, believes that the Mexican written word is inconceivable without the work of Faulkner, and is concerned about TV-addicted kids. Ricardo Perera's work is out of the mainstream and he is little published. His well-crafted stories are read as ideologically distant from the literary establishment.Among the more invisible elements of Mexican society is a vibrant Jewish community of about 80,000?the context for Margo Glantz's autobiographical novel, The Family Tree, which searches the mysteries of her family's past.The eloquence of Carlos Fuentes is revealed in an interview entitled "Our Personal Frontier with Latin America" which serves as an epilogue to Inside the Statues of Saints.

Inside the Statues of Saints: Mexican Writers on Culture and Corruption, Politics and Daily Life

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Vehicule Pr

In the first book of Szantos trilogy, a Canadian lives a year in a Mexican village and finds his life and beliefs progressively subverted and reconstituted.

The Underside of Stones

Literary

Dundurn

In this new detective series set on the islands off the Pacific Northwest, Noel Franklin and Kyra Rachel team up to form Islands Investigations International. Quickly they come to realize that some crimes respect no boundaries. Their first job takes Noel and Kyra to Gabriola Island and the murder of an art gallery groundkeeper. A police investigation ensues, without immediate success. Upset by a suggestive article about the murder in the local paper, the gallery owner calls on Noel, an ex-investigative reporter and asks him to find evidence that will eliminate the spreading rumors. Noel agrees and asks his long-time friend Kyra, an insurance investigator from Bellingham, Washington, to help. As Noel and Kyra work on the case they fall prey to those they need to trust, and discover that even charming island communities can keep deadly secrets. [i]Never Sleep With a Suspect[/i] is the first mystery in the series, which alternates between Canada and the US. The next mystery, [i]Always Kiss the Corpse[/i], is set on Washington State's Whidbey Island.

Never Sleep With a Suspect on Gabriola Island: An Islands Investigations International Mystery

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Duncan, Sandy Frances

Mystery

Touchwood Ed

Ted tells stories. High on a cloud above Mount Washington, he peers over its edge at the earth down below, listening to the memories of the mortal folk he watches. Lola listens to his stories. Once, long ago, she was a famous Hollywood bombshell, beloved by millions. Now, as a god, she has ascended to the heavens, living in eternal light. Ted’s storytelling captures her heart, just as she captured those of her fans. As Ted talks to her, Lola wants to know more. Down on earth, three families roll through generations of joy, tragedy, hope, and loss. Milton and Theresa Magnussen, activist conservationists, lovers, parents, fighters. Handy’ Johnnie Cochan, self-styled ecological leader, haunted by sadness and fear. And the disaster-recovery specialist, Carney, who can quench an oil-platform fire, but finds love hard to hold onto. Through their mingled attractions and battles, their futures become bound together as Cochan’s vision for a new utopia, a massive Vermont construction project, threatens to rupture everything. Ted watches and tells; Lola listens and dreams . . . as something within her is changing. Whatever Lola Wants is a saga of gods and insects, people and

Whatever Lola Wants

Brindle & Glass

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