Cynical sleuth Hector Baelascoaran Shayne finds himself embroiled in three baffling cases--murder at a corrupt factory, threats against the teenage daughter of a former porn star, and a search for the missing Emiliano Zapata

An Easy Thing (Penguin Crime Mystery)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Taïbo ii, Paco Ignacio

Neuman, William

Mystery

Penguin??Books

Return to the Same City

A slightly surreal, darkly comic crime novel by a critically acclaimed Latin American author resurrects his popular monocular detective, He+a7ctor Belascoara+7n Shayne, who sifts through the underworld of Acapulco for a murderer. Reprint.

Literature & Fiction

World Literature

MYSTERIOUS PRESS

On the night of October 2, 1968, there occurred a bloody showdown between student demonstrators and the Mexican government in Tlatelolco Square. At least two hundred students were shot dead and many more were detained. Then the bodies were trucked out, the cobblestones were washed clean. Detainees were held without recourse until 1971. Official denial of the killing continues even today: In the first week of February 2003, Mexico's Education Secretary Reyes Tamiz ordered a new history textbook that mentions the massacre-Claudia Sierra's History of Mexico: An Analytical Approach-removed from shelves and classrooms. (Public outcry led Tamiz to reverse his decision days later.) No one has yet been held accountable for the official acts of savagery. With provocative, anecdotal, and analytical prose, Taibo claims for history "one more of the many unredeemed and sleepless ghosts that live in our lands."

'68 (Siete Cuentos) (Spanish Edition)

History

Americas

Siete Cuentos

Seven Stories Press

In Mexico City on the night of October 2, 1968, at least two hundred students—among thousands protesting election fraud and campaigning for university reform—were shot dead in a bloody showdown with government troops in Tlatelolco Square. The bodies were collected and trucked away and the cobblestones washed clean. Hundreds more were arrested, and imprisoned for years. To this day, no one has been held accountable for the acts of savagery and these events are nowhere to be found in official histories. One member of the student movement that was crushed that night, Paco Taibo, would become an international literary figure. ’68is his account of the events of October 2, and of the student movement that preceded them. In provocative, anecdotal prose, Taibo claims for history “one more of the many unredeemed and sleepless ghosts that live in our lands.”

'68: The Mexican Autumn of the Tlatelolco Massacre

A firsthand account of the shocking Tlatelolco Massacre, still denied by the Mexican government.In Mexico City on the night of October 2, 1968, at least two hundred students--among thousands protesting election fraud and campaigning for university reform--were shot dead in a bloody showdown with government troops in Tlatelolco Square. Hundreds more were arrested, and imprisoned for years. Yet these events are nowhere to be found in official histories: that very night the bodies were collected and trucked away and the cobblestones washed clean, and government denial of all involvement began. To this day no one has been held accountable for the official acts of savagery.One member of the crowd that night, Paco Taibo, would become an international literary figure; '68 is his account of the events of October 2, and of the student movement that preceded them, in the first English-language translation, with a new epilogue by the author. In provocative, anecdotal prose, Taibo here claims for history "one more of the many unredeemed and sleepless ghosts that live in our lands."

'68: El otoño mexicano de la masacre de Tlatelolco (Spanish Edition)

Pancho Villa: A Revolutionary Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

"Great writers by definition are outriders, raiders of a sort, sweeping down from wilderness territories to disturb the peace, overrun the status quo and throw into question everything we know to be true. . . . On its face, the novel is a murder mystery, and at the book’s heart, always, is a deep love of Mexico and its people.” Los Angeles Times Subcomandante Marcos is a spokesperson and strategist for the Zapatistas, an indigenous insurgency movement based in Mexico. Paco Ignacio Taibo II is the author of numerous works of award-winning fiction and nonfiction, which have been published in many languages around the world. He lives in Mexico City.

The Uncomfortable Dead

Marcos, Subcomandante

United States

Akashic Books Ltd

Pancho Villa

Historical

Payot *

La tensión estaba en el aire. La ciudad de México era un hervidero reaccionario y porfirista donde los generales que juraban fidelidad al presidente Madero conspiraban por las noches para dar un golpe de Estado. ¿Pero qué ocurrió exactamente durante aquellos días de febrero de 1913? Paco Ignacio Taibo II hace una reconstruc ción mi- nuciosa de la confabulación: su gestación en octubre de 1912 en La Habana, un corrupto embajador norteamericano presionando para que el levantamiento se lleve a cabo, las calles del centro tomadas por el ejército la traición se respiraba por toda la ciudad. Pero el presidente no quería verlo. Gustavo, su hermano, se lo decía:"Nos van a matar a todos". Y así sería.

Temporada de zopilotes (Spanish Edition)

Planeta Publishing

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