Product Description: En cierta escuela afamada por su rigor para controlar el comportamiento de los alumnos, trabaja como prefecto un hombre de pocas pulgas y risa nula, ni siquiera una leve sonrisa asoma a sus labios jamás. Todos los niños le temen y huyen de él, pues no sólo no ríe nunca, sino que se dedica a darle de zapes a todo aquel que se cruce en su camino osando emitir la más mínima risilla...read more

Product Description: Letters to a Young Psychologist consists of a series of essays in the form of letters. As a primer on the subject of psychology, it is unique because it comes through the lens of a novelist with insightful references to the junction of psychology and literature...read more

Product Description: El novelista, dramaturgo y editor mexicano Ignacio Solares comparte con Julio Cortázar una visión dislocada de la realidad y una búsqueda de lo trascendente. Basándose en textos diversos, que incluyen cartas y entrevistas, y en entrevistas de otros escritores y críticos, Solares se interna en la obra cortazariana, desentraña sus claves ocultas y pone de manifiesto los componentes oníricos, religiosos, parapsicológicos y mágicos...read more

Product Description: There Is No Such Place is a novel by acclaimed Mexican writer Ignacio Solares and translated into English by Timothy G. Compton. Set in the remote and inhospitable mountains of Chihuahua in northern Mexico, it tells the story of a young priest, Lucas Caraveo, who spends three remarkable days in San S¿stenes, an extraordinary Utopian community...read more

Product Description: There are people who believe in resurrection and also believe that our actions link to the world s salvation. For some, that faith would be enough to reach sanctity. For others however, it is only a comfort to forget that life is a whirlwind...read more

Focuses on a dark period in Mexico's history--the Mexican-American War that resulted in the catastrophic loss of over one-half of nation's territory to the United States--without losing sight of those common citizens, such as lepers, laborers, intelectuals, and priests, who are often overlooked.

Product Description: EL ESPIA DEL AIRE

Product Description: "Columbus" has been called "a miracle of the contemporary Mexican novel." Ignacio Solares has created a riveting historical novel that takes place during the Mexican revolution and focuses on the Mexican invasion of the United States by the followers of Pancho Villa...read more

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Product Description: Cristina, the young protagonist of Tree of Desire, and her little brother Joaquín run away from a home that is outwardly normal, but inwardly disfunctional. Lost on the streets of Mexico City, they confront some of the most terrifying aspects of city life...read more

Product Description: Un hilo conductor trenza estos relatos de Ignacio Solares (1945): la relación con el padre. Estas historias producen en el lector una identificación inmediata y entrañable con los personajes, que representan, en más de una forma, ese anhelo infinito de libertad que va más allá de sistemas sociales, familiares o religiosos...read more

Product Description: The Europeans arrived with invincible weapons: guns, horses, and diseases. Their first sight of Montezuma's Aztec capital took their breath away, but they never vacillated in their holy mission of conquest, enslavement, and exploitation...read more