In a small town in the middle of the Mexican desert, a librarian working in a library that no one but himself uses sees the world solely through the eyes literature, and when a girl is found dead, he takes the parts of novels and adds them to the puzzle of a detective story that unerringly leads the police directly to the murderer.

Ultimo Lector, El (Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

TOSCANA, DAVID

Literary

Random House Mondadori

A hurricane ravages the town of Tula, and the author's friend is declared missing. When his totaled car is recovered, his friend's wife finds piles of papers inside. She determines that her husband is not dead, but rather has run off with his lover. She asks David Toscana to sift through the papers and make sense of her husband's disappearance -- the result is Tula Station. The novel is three stories in one: the story of an orphan destined to live a Quixotic life in search of adventure; the life of a man who will forever be in love with the fantasy of a woman; and the almost true story of the once prosperous town of Tula, whose mountain location make it inaccessible to both trains and modernity in spite of the hopeful construction of Tula Station. Intelligent and subtle, Tula Station is a striking mix of old and new.

Tula Station

Contemporary

Thomas Dunne Books

After a hurricane smashes through the Mexican town of Tula, the narrator's friend is missing--seemingly carried off by the storm--but when his car turns up, filled with his papers, the disappeared man's wife is convinced that he ran off with his lover and asks the author to investigate. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Griffin

The latest offering by acclaimed Mexican writer David Toscana is a whimsical and dark tale about a group of circus performers who, disillusioned with their lives as traveling entertainers, are seduced by the idea of settling down and living like ordinary people. Our Lady of the Circus begins with the once formidable circus of the Mantecón Brothers breaking apart, resulting in one brother taking with him the best of the group. Left behind is brother Don Alejo, who tries to rally the remaining troupe of eight stragglers and a pig. Together they stumble upon an abandoned town, where the demoralized performers seize the opportunity to start over and christen it Santa María del Circo. What ensues is an absurd and tragic look at the misfits' struggle to create new lives for themselves. Through these desperate characters, Toscana skillfully reveals the many defects of humanity and the individual's desire for self-realization, and, in so doing, creates a touching metaphor for the human condition.

Our Lady of the Circus

In tiny Icamole, 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, floodgates open on dark possibility. Strangely enamored of the dead girl’s beauty and fearing implication, Remigio turns desperately to his father. Persuading his son to bury the body, Lucio baptizes the girl Babette, after the heroine of a favorite novel. Is Lucio the keeper of too many stories? As police begin to investigate, has he lost his footing? Or do revelation and resolution lie with other characters and plots from his library? Toscana displays brilliant mastery of the novel—in all its elements—as Lucio keeps every last reader guessing.Praise for David Toscana’s earlier work“Deserves to join the ranks of the great Latin American authors Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Jorge Amado” —New York Times Book Review“Introduces American readers to a gifted writer who seems poised to inherit the postmodernist mantle of Carlos Fuentes.” —Kirkus Reviews

The Last Reader (THE AMERICAS)

Texas Tech University Press

Ignacio Matus is a public school history teacher in Monterrey, Mexico, who gets fired because of his patriotic rantings about Mexico’s repeated humiliations by the United States. Not only did Mexico’s northern neighbor steal a large swath of the country in the Mexican-American War, but according to Matus it also denied him Olympic glory. Excluded from the 1924 Olympics, Matus ran his own parallel marathon and beat the time of the American who officially won the bronze medal. After spending decades attempting to vindicate his supposed triumph and claim the medal, Matus seeks an even bigger vindication—he will reconquer Texas for Mexico! Recruiting an army of “los iluminados,” the enlightened ones, Matus sets off on a quest as worthy of Don Quixote as it is doomed.
David Toscana is one of Latin America’s leading contemporary writers, and his books have won several prestigious awards, including the Casa de las Américas Prize for The Enlightened Army. The novel’s treatment of the troubled relations between Mexico and the United States makes it highly topical at a time when immigration and border walls capture headlines, while its lyrical writing and humorous take on the absurdities of everyday life offer timeless pleasures.

The Enlightened Army (Latin American Literature in Translation)

United States

University of Texas Press

¿Qué pasaría si un grupo de niños decide invadir los Estados Unidos? ¿Qué sucede cuando una persona corre un maratón y gana una medalla pero está a miles de kilómetros de distancia y sus únicos testigos son un par de amigos alcohólicos? David Toscana es sin duda un escritor único, alguien que no se parece a nadie más que usted haya leído en ningún lugar del mundo. Toscana parte de situaciones aparentemente absurdas -¡un ejército iluminado!- para hacernos reflexionar sobre este disparate que llamamos "mundo", "modernidad" o "civilización" mientras no dejamos de reírnos por las más de cien páginas que componen esta novela -Luis Felipe Lomelí, escritor

El ejército iluminado (Spanish Edition)

La Pereza Ediciones

La literatura, los escritores, los libros (Spanish Edition)

Arts & Photography

Todos buscan el final feliz, la cara sonriente, romper con el destino natural, evitar la tragedia; persiguen lo banal y desabrido, lo ligero y mujeril: se rehúsan a hacer literatura. La biblioteca de Icamole se ha quedado sin lectores. Sin embargo, los libros que la habitan se apoderan de la cotidianidad del pueblo que muere de sed y dan la respuesta a una muerte misteriosa. La de una pequeña que aparece inerte dentro de la única reserva de agua que queda: el pozo de Remigio, hijo de Lucio, el bibliotecario. Un verdugo implacable de las malas historias, mismas que entrega sin remordimiento a las cucarachas. Lucio será el encargado de encontrar en los libros la coartada perfecta. Esa que libera al presunto culpable de asesinar a la hermosa niña que, muerta, consigue cautivarlo. Así, la versión que surge de las páginas sobrevivientes se convierte en la única posibilidad. En la opción que permitirá a todos continuar. David Toscana rebasa los límites existentes entre vida y literatura con su habilidad de enlazar narraciones que parecen eternas e infinitas. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The library at Icamole has become a lifeless space, no one crosses it threshold any longer. In a town consumed by thirst the books that inhabit this space have taken over everyday life, shedding light on the mysterious death of a small girl found in the town's sole remaining water reservoir: the well belonging to Lucio's son, Remigio. It is now up to Lucio, as the librarian, to come up with the perfect alibi. It is in this manner that a story takes shape from the surviving pages, allowing everyone to go on with their lives.

El último lector (Spanish Edition)

Alfaguara

Cuatro amigos se salvaron de morir en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Ahora, deben sobrevivir a la reconstruccion de Varsovia. Feliks, Ludwik, Kazimierz y Eugeniuz tienen mas de sesenta anos y no saben que hacer consigo mismos. Feliks es un hombre que se oculta bajo su aspecto de nino. Cuando abre la puerta frente a la visita de un desconocido, siempre escucha la misma pregunta: Esta tu papa? Sin embargo, es un hombre casado y con dos hijos, capaz de ser la salvacion pero tambien la perdicion de los desconocidos que se tope. El salvo al grupo de cuatro pero se convertira en un soplon dispuesto a confesar que cualquiera es culpable con tal de salvar el pellejo. Ludwik es un sepulturero que hace servicios extranos como prometer (y cumplir) a una anciana que, cuando muera (que sera pronto), la desenterrara, la sacara de la tumba en la que tambien este su esposo y la llevara al lado de su amante. Kazimierz vive con una enfermera que sigue enamorada del soldado mutilado que un dia atendio y que no sabe si sigue vivo o muerto. Ahora habitan en una casa que no les pertenece, que seguramente era de una familia judia, pero que nadie reclama. Kazimierz va todos los dias va al liceo, donde le ofrecen un empleo de conserje pero, al estar frente a la secretaria, se averguenza y se promete que solicitara empleo como profesor de astronomia, aunque no sepa nada del tema. El cuadro se completa con Eugeniusz, un sacerdote que se sabe un santo capaz de resucitar a los muertos y otros milagros mas. La gente sigue siendo llamada a declarar; se siguen firmando confesiones sin ser leídas; se expropian y se allanan propiedades; se vende en una tienda de viejo lo que otros, muertos de seguro, perdieron o les fue arrebatado. En ese escenario, estos cuatro sobrevivientes intentan descubrir que pueden hacer con la vida que aun les queda. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION: Four friends survive WWII. Now in their sixties and with no plans for their future, they must survive the reconstruction of Warsaw. Boyishly innocent, Feliks will rat out anyone in order to save himself. Ludwik, a gravedigger, provides all kinds of unusual services. Kazimierz lives with a nurse who loves another. And Eugeniusz, a priest, is convinced he is capable of any number of miracles, including bringing back the dead.

La ciudad que el diablo se llevo / The City the Devil Took (Spanish Edition)

Genre Fiction

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Ultimo Lector, El (Spanish Edition)

Tula Station

Tula Station

Our Lady of the Circus

The Last Reader (THE AMERICAS)

The Enlightened Army (Latin American Literature in Translation)

El ejército iluminado (Spanish Edition)

La literatura, los escritores, los libros (Spanish Edition)

El último lector (Spanish Edition)

La ciudad que el diablo se llevo / The City the Devil Took (Spanish Edition)