David Toscana

• Jan-2000
• / General Fiction
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After a hurricane smashes through the Mexican town of Tula, the narrator's friend is missing--seemingly carried off by the storm--but when his car turns up, filled with his papers, the disappeared man's wife is convinced that he ran off with his love...

• Sep-2001
• / General Fiction
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The latest offering by acclaimed Mexican writer David Toscana is a whimsical and dark tale about a group of circus performers who, disillusioned with their lives as traveling entertainers, are seduced by the idea of settling down and living like ...

• Oct-2009
• / General Fiction
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In tiny Icamole, almost deserted village in Mexico’s desert north, the librarian, Lucio, is also the village’s only reader. Though it has not rained for a year in Icamole, when Lucio’s son Remigio draws the body of a thirteen-year-old girl from...

• Jan-2019
• / General Fiction
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Ignacio Matus is a public school history teacher in Monterrey, Mexico, who gets fired because of his patriotic rantings about Mexico’s repeated humiliations by the United States. Not only did Mexico’s northern neighbor steal a large swath of the ...