Carmen Boullosa

• Jan-1994
• / General Fiction
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In Mexico City a body is clutching papers and a tape recording. Is this a political murder? A miracle-worker has the power, by allowing the wishes of people to enter into her dreams, to answer their prayers. What does she so when a ruthless man petit...

• Mar-2001
• / Literary
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A dark, thought-provoking adventure that “artfully evokes the blood-soaked reality of 17th-century pirates” (Entertainment Weekly).This “wryly humorous, satiric, and often macabre novel” (Library Journal) follows Jean Smeeks, a Flemish thirte...

• Jun-2002
• / Literary
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A young woman encounters strange events in her Mexican hometown in this novel by an author who “immerses us…in her wickedly funny and imaginative world” (Latina).Leaving Tabasco tells of the coming of age of Delmira Ulloa, raised in an all-fema...

• Jan-2005
• / Literary
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An enchanting, audacious retelling of the Cleopatra story from a Mexican novelist who is “a luminous writer” and “a masterful spinner of the fantastic” (The Miami Herald).   In Cleopatra Dismounts, Carmen Boullosa has written a remarkabl...

• Dec-2014
• / Historical
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"Mexico's greatest woman writer." -- Roberto Bolaño"A luminous writer . . . Boullosa is a masterful spinner of the fantastic" -- Miami HeraldAn imaginative writer in the tradition of Juan Rulfo, Jorge Luis Borges, and Cesar Aira, Carmen Boullosa sho...

• Aug-2016
• / Literary
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"Carmen Boullosa is, in my opinion, a true master." -- Alvaro MutisPart bildungsroman, part ghost story, part revenge novel, Before tells the story of a woman who returns to the landscape of her childhood to overcome the fear that held her captive as...

• Oct-2017
• / Science Fiction
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Three narrators from different historical eras are each engaged in preserving history in Carmen Boullosa's Heavens on Earth. As her narrators sense and interact with each other over time and space, Boullosa challenges the primacy of recorded history ...

• Apr-2020
• / Literary
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Russia, 1905. Behind the gates of the Karenin Palace, Sergei, son of Anna Karenina, meets Tolstoy in his dreams and finds reminders of his mother everywhere: the almost-living portrait that the Tsar intends to acquire and the opium-infused manuscript...

• Mar-2023
• / Literary
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A brilliant, feminist twist on the Book of Genesis from Carmen Boullosa. What if everything they’ve told us about the Garden of Eden was wrong? Faced with what appears to be an apocryphal manuscript containing ten books and ninety-one parts, E...