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I need to start accumulating some reading material before a trip at the end of January. I've read and loved Fuentes' "The Death of Artemio Cruz", and am picking up "Labyrinth of Solitude" by Octavio Paz to finish before I go, but how about some good books for the beach?

― jordache, Monday, 27 December 2004 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Juan Rulfo, Pedro Paramo: absolutely essential.

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 06:01 (twenty-one years ago)

eight months pass...

Have we anything else for this one?

― nabiscothingy, Sunday, 18 September 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

Salvador Plascencia left Mexico in his teens, I think, but his writing feels very Mexican: The People Of Paper is historical and dreamy and enjoyable and not very McSweeney's-y even though they published it.

― Paul Eater (eater), Monday, 19 September 2005 02:46 (twenty years ago)

It's going back a few centuries, but you could read the poems of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, in the Alan S Trueblood translations.

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 19 September 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

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