Paco Ignacio Taibo II

An outstanding mystery novel which takes place in the waning days of the Mexican Revolution. The four main protagonists, who mostly interact while playing dominoes, deal with murder, violence, corruption, and an ever changing cast of malevolent characters. Mostly they try to make sense of the city they have come to love and there place in it. The four, (a lawyer, a union organizers, a newspaperman, and poet), together manage to tell the story of a national broken heart. I will let the poet himself try to explain ....

"The poet liked to think of himself and his three friends as something like the tide scum left on the beach at the high-water mark; The indefinable children of a turbulent decade marked by upheaval much bigger than themselves, a series of changes they'd experienced peripherally as spectators, protagonists, and victims"

A great introductory novel to the fiction of Paco Ignacio Taibo II. This edition graced with a lovely cover.… (meer)

Sólo tu sombra fatal reúne cuentos y tres novelas cortas que resultan un derroche de imaginación. Del robo de la estatua de Tláloc por un sindicato de porteros mexicanos en Nueva York, a los conflictos del director de la CIA contra los taxistas hindúes, pasando por Dashiell Hammett persiguiendo la cabeza perdida de Pancho Villa. De la historia de un golpe de estado fascista en México y su posterior resistencia encabezada por Máscara Azteca, a Phillip K. Dick escibiendo en un México que no perdió la guerra del 47.… (meer)