The Uncomfortable Dead
Title | The Uncomfortable Dead PDF eBook |
Author | Subcomandante Marcos |
Publisher | Akashic Books |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2010-02-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1936070758 |
A stylized reissue of the acclaimed, surreal noir collaboration between Mexico’s greatest writer and its most courageous revolutionary. “Taibo’s expertise ensures a smart, funny book, and Marcos brings a wry sense of humor.” —Publishers Weekly In alternating chapters, Zapatista leader Subcomandante Marcos and the consistently excellent Paco Ignacio Taibo II create an uproarious murder mystery with two intersecting storylines. The chapters written by the famously masked Marcos originate in the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico. There, the fictional “Subcomandante Marcos” assigns Elias Contreras—an odd but charming mountain man—to travel to Mexico City in search of an elusive and hideous murderer named “Morales.” The second story line, penned by Taibo, stars his famous series detective Hector Belascoaran Shayne. Hector guzzles Coca-Cola and smokes cigarettes furiously amidst his philosophical and always charming approach to investigating crimes—in this case, the search for his own “Morales.” The two stories collide absurdly and dramatically in the urban sprawl of Mexico City. The ugly history of the city’s political violence rears its head, and both detectives find themselves in an unpredictable dance of death with forces at once criminal, historical, and political. Readers expecting political heavy-handedness will be disarmed by the humility and playful self-mocking that runs throughout the book.
Letras Femeninas
Title | Letras Femeninas PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 660 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Mexican American women authors |
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Black Widow's Wardrobe: A Gloria Damasco Mystery
Title | Black Widow's Wardrobe: A Gloria Damasco Mystery PDF eBook |
Author | Lucha Corpi |
Publisher | Arte Publico Press |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 1999-11-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781611920710 |
Was it a spectre from the past, some Aztec revenant that had inspired the "Black Widow" to kill her husband? Or did these chilling murders have more to do with the rights of property and inheritance, and mere greed? Who better than Gloria Damasco, that indomitable detective with a flair for clairvoyance, to unravel this intricate and pulsing plot, which winds its way from an exotic Day of the Dead celebration in San Francisco to the even more exotic sites and customs of Tepozotlan. Gloria soon finds herself in an uncanny struggle to rescue the soul of Licia, the Black Widow, who believes herself possessed by the spirit of La Malinche, the eternally condemned slayer of her mixed-blood offspring during the Spanish conquest of Mexico. Part thriller, part exploration of myth and history, Black Widow's Wardrobe is a page-turner.
Crimes Against the State, Crimes Against Persons
Title | Crimes Against the State, Crimes Against Persons PDF eBook |
Author | Persephone Braham |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Cuban fiction |
ISBN | 9781452906256 |
Cactus Blood: A Gloria Damasco Mystery
Title | Cactus Blood: A Gloria Damasco Mystery PDF eBook |
Author | Lucha Corpi |
Publisher | Arte Publico Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2009-08-31 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1611920825 |
In California, Chicana detective Gloria Damasco investigates the death of a strike leader who was involved in a grape boycott. Officially the death was suicide, but Damasco thinks murder more likely. By the author of Eulogy for a Brown Angel.
Eulogy for a Brown Angel
Title | Eulogy for a Brown Angel PDF eBook |
Author | Lucha Corpi |
Publisher | |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
In 1970 in East Los Angeles, Gloria Damasco, a feminist political activist from Oakland, and her best friend Luisa are attending a march in support of the Chicano Moratorium. After the protest turns into a riot, Gloria and Luisa discover the dead body of a 4-year old boy named Michael David Cisneros; he has been strangled and his body defiled. Working unofficially with the lead LAPD homicide investigator, Gloria and Luisa become acquainted with the dead boy's family, who are also in town from Oakland for the march. Then the key witness, a young gang member, is also murdered and the trail to the boy's killer goes cold. The story then shifts to the San Francisco Bay Area and fast-forwards to 1988. Gloria's husband, who discouraged her from continuing the investigation, has died and her daughter is grown, but she is still haunted by little Michael David's murder. Worried about Gloria's state of mind, her mother hires private investigator Justin Escobar to solve the mystery once and for all. Together, Gloria and Justin uncover a trail of international conspiracy and family tragedies before they finally learn the truth behind the 18-year old murder.
The Novel and The Police
Title | The Novel and The Police PDF eBook |
Author | D. A. Miller |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780520067462 |
"With the appearance of D.A. Miller's remarkable book, the Victorian novel has its most dazzling critic in years. . . . Miller's subject is not so much the police in fiction as fiction and policing, narrative as a conservative function of the polis. Tracking diverse strategies of surveillance and incarceration into the confines of the fictional institution itself, Miller investigates Victorian novels as the often unconscious agent of a disciplinary culture. He thus reads fiction reading us, keeping a public in its private place. His mastery of an intricate, layered, and sinuous argument is stunning, the writing no less than superb. For all the book's overarching debt to Foucault, D.A. Miller 'do the police' in a voice all his own."—Garrett Stewart, author of Death Sentences: Styles of Dying in British Fiction