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        C.M.
        Mayo's
        Mexico:
        A Traveler's Literary Companion

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MEXICO 

    A
    TRAVELER'S LITERARY COMPANION

    EDITED BY C.M. MAYO

    
Fiction
    and literary prose by some of Mexico's finest writers

    
Here— many translated for the first
    time— are stories that shatter stereotypes
    as they provide a rollicking
    journey

    
Carlos Fuentes, Laura
    Esquivel, Fernando del Paso, Juan Villoro, Carlos Monsiváis, Ángeles
    Mastretta & many more...

    
"This book...
    may go on to find its place, very naturally, as one of the outstanding
    contemporary works on this country... "

    —David
    Huerta, El Universal, Mexico City

    

    >>>Hear
    the interview on National Public Radio

    
Available from
    fine bookstores throughout the U.S.

    (and also in many English-language bookstores in Mexico.) 

    To order a copy, click here.

    ..

    .

    

    
"Discovering
    it was like opening a door and walking into a 

    brightly lit room filled with all kinds of literary treasures"


    Mexico
    Connect

    click
    here to read the rest of the review 

    in Mexico Connect



    "This
    delicious volume has lovingly gathered a banquet of pieces

    that reveal Mexico in all its infinite variety, its splendid

    geography, its luminous peoples. What a treat!"

    Margaret
    Sayers Peden, editor, Mexican Writers on Writing

    

    "This is a book to throw in a suitcase or mochila
    (backpack) on the way to Mexico

    or just settling into a favorite patio chair. It will open your
    eyes, fill you with 

    pleasure and render our perennial vecinos a little less
    distante."


    Los Angeles Times Book Review



    Praise for
    the 

    Traveler's Literary Companion Series:



    "We can hear a country speak and better
    learn its secrets through the voices 

    of its great writers. An engaging series— a compelling idea,
    thoughtfully executed."

    Isabel
    Allende



    "Each paperback
    is an anthology of short stories by fine local writers—

    a unique way to learn about a place." 

    National
    Geographic Traveler

    

    
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