Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Each facing the impossibility of getting what he thinks he deserves, Franco and Polo hatch a mindless and macabre scheme. Paradais explores the explosive fragility of Mexican society - fractured by issues of race, class and violence - and how the myths, desires, and hardships of teenagers can tear life apart at the seams.

This novel depicts life in the small Mexican town of Ixtepec during the grim days of the Revolution. The town tells its own story against a variegated background of political change, religious persecution, and social unrest. It is a book of episodes, one that leaves the reader with a series of vivid impressions.

In this international classic, Paz has written one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico and its people, character, and culture. This collection contains his most famous work, essays that all develop the themes of the title essay and extend his penetrating commentary to the United States and Latin America.

Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this novelof family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico is a romantic, poignant tale, touched with moments of magic, graphic earthiness, bittersweet wit - and recipes.

Liborio leaves Mexico to reach 'the promised land.' And in a barrio like any other, in some gringo city, this illegal immigrant tells his story. As he narrates his memories we discover an impoverished childhood and a youth during which he has nothing to lose.

From the day that old Nana Reja found a baby abandoned under a bridge, the life of a small Mexican town forever changed. Disfigured and covered in a blanket of bees, little Simonopio is for some locals the stuff of superstition, a child kissed by the devil. But he is welcomed by landowners Francisco and Beatriz Morales, who adopt him and care for him as if he were their own.

Malinche is an extraordinary retelling of the passionate and tragic love affair during the conquest of the Aztecs between the conquistador Cortez and his Indian interpreter Malinalli.

The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse—by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals—propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread.