Carlos: 2314 books

As the novel opens, Artemio Cruz, the all-powerful newspaper magnate and land baron, lies confined to his bed and, in dreamlike flashes, recalls the pivotal episodes of his life. Carlos Fuentes manipulates the ensuing kaleidoscope of images with dazzling inventiveness, layering memory upon memory,...

La obra en prosa de Carlos Pezoa Véliz, ha sido poco difundida, más bien ha sido su poesía que, aunque de forma póstuma, le ha dado reconocimiento. Por lo mismo que Editorial MAGO, con esta nueva edición de Prosa, repone una de las plumas más brillantes de nuestra literatura, con una obra breve...

QUIERO VOLAR es una novela corta. Narra la historia de una mujer campesina, quien por accidente descubre la habilidad para ser una bruja. Al comienzo se resiste a admitirlo. Las circunstancias de la vida la llevan a querer ser bruja. Realiza el ritual para volar. Desde entonces su vida cambia.Se...

En esta publicación objetividad, verdad, democratización, ética, responsabilidad son conceptos recurrentes en estas voces publicadas que, independientemente de su posición política, ubican en el centro de la discusión a una sociedad cada vez más participativa y demandante.

The Korticos are from a well-endowed pygmy tribe in West Africa; the Mandingas are descended from a tribe of tall Ghanaians. Both families have been brought to Cuba as slaves. Oscar Kortico and Jose Mandinga, inseparable friends, marry a pair of sisters, and in the tiny hamlet of Pig's Foot (Pata...

In The Old Gringo, Carlos Fuentes brings the Mexico of 1916 uncannily to life. This novel is wise book, full of toughness and humanity and is without question one of the finest works of modern Latin American fiction. One of Fuentes's greatest works, the novel tells the story of Ambrose Bierce,...

¿Quién es Balieri? ¿Es un hombre, un niño, un trabajador, un padre de familia, un aventurero, un soñador, un loco? ¿Está vivo Balieri o ya murió? Balieri es uno y somos todos. Reside en el mundo perfecto de lo imaginado, de la metamorfosis, de la magia. Puede hablarnos de cualquier cosa, participar...

Seven poems including The Elements Between You and Me. This is support literature to the short story novel Leonardo and Mary-Angel.

First published in 1968, Carlos Fuentes's controversial novel A Change of Skin tells the story of four persons who drive from Mexico City to Veracruz one Palm Sunday. The Driver of the car is Franz, an ex-Nazi, and with him is his young Mexican lover Isabel, the talented but failed poet Javier, and...

Some say it’s a fine line between right and wrong, There’s only mere seconds between dusk to dawn; The difference of heads and tails is just a flip of a coin We’ve experienced the inches between love and hate, realized the anxiety of patience and wait; The disparity of the truth has to be a...

NO SE MATA LA VERDAD MATANDO PERIODISTAS "A fuerza de recordarlos y denunciar los atentados, impidamos que mueran." En la actualidad, México es uno de los países más peligrosos para ejercer el periodismo. Las muertes y las desapariciones de comunicadores constituyen un escenario...

My name is Ixca Cienfuegos. I was born and I live in Mexico City. Which is not so grave: in Mexico City there is never tragedy but only outrage. Thus begins Carlos Fuentes's first novel, unfolding a panorama in which many people's lives depend on the fact that they live in today's Mexico City, where...

Hailed as "one of the greatest chroniclers of the mythical American outlaw life" (Entertainment Weekly), James Carlos Blake turns to the blazing story of Stanley Ketchel, the legendary ragtime-era middleweight boxing champion and daring rakehell, whose brief and meteoric life burned with...

A gritty, raw, bare-knuckled debut collection of stories set in the borderlands of the world and mind.   In this extraordinary collection of short works, James Carlos Blake, “one of the greatest chroniclers of the mythical American outlaw life” and author of In the Rogue Blood and the Wolfe family...