Un verdadero clásico de la literatura mexicana del siglo XX, que situó a Carlos Fuentes en la vanguardia de lo que algunos años más tarde se conocería como la nueva novela hispanoamericana. En su lecho de muerte, durante su último medio día, el anciano y enfermo Artemio Cruz recuerda: no siempre fue ese triste saco de huesos y fermentos corporales; alguna vez fue joven, osado, vigoroso. Y tuvo ideales, sueños, fe. Para defender todo eso, incluso...

In the arid canyonlands of Mexico the race is on for the ultimate end-of-the-world codex-the final 1000-year-old prophesy of the god-king, Quetzalcoatl, who ruled Mexico 1000 years ago. Rita Critchlow and Cooper Jones hunt for that sacred codex in those scorching desert canyons, while 500 years ago, Pacal, a young slave-scholar, sets out on the same deadly quest. He too must find those apocalyptic writings, knowing that his era-the Age of the Aztecs-may...

From award-winning novelist Mary Morris comes the remarkable story of a remote New Mexican town coming to grips with a dark history it never imagined. In 1492, the Jewish and Muslim populations of Spain were expelled, and Columbus set sail for America. Luis de Torres, a Spanish Jew, accompanies Columbus as his interpreter. His journey is only the beginning of a long migration, across many generations. Over the centuries, de Torres' descendants travel...

"Nineteen-eleven is the year our two beauties, Rebecca Walsh and Marta del Toro leave the comfort and safety of their boarding school back East, under the watchful eye of their grandmother Abuelita and Madame Boutin, headmistress of Stonefields School for Young Ladies. They're headed to Smith College in the fall, to continue on the path of the blueblood debutante. But something is rotten in their beloved Mexico. The Revolution has started; Emiliano...