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Mexico City Noir

Translated by Achy Obejas ...

by Eduardo Antonio Parra, Bernardo Fernández ...

Series series Akashic Noir
Latin American noir at its finest. "[A] diverse collection of stories which reflect the harshness and also the brittle brilliance of life in Mexico City."— MostlyFiction Book ReviewsAkashic Books's acclaimed series of original noir anthologies has set a high standard for portraying cities and their neighborhoods in all their dark and violent splendor. Now, " Mexico City Noir surpasses that ... Read more

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Latin American noir at its finest. "[A] diverse collection of stories which reflect the harshness and also the brittle brilliance of life in Mexico City."— MostlyFiction Book ReviewsAkashic Books's acclaimed series of original noir anthologies has set a high standard for portraying cities and their neighborhoods in all their dark and violent splendor. Now, " Mexico City Noir surpasses that
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An Easy Thing

by Paco Ignacio Taibo ...

Series Book 1 - Hector Belascoaran Shayne Detective Novels
Set amidst the political turbulence and social unrest of contemporary Mexico City, An Easy Thing introduces English-speaking readers to Taibo's human and world-weary protagonist, independent detective Hector Belascoaran Shayne. In this debut outing, our hero, who, incidentally, possesses an insatiable appetite for Coca Cola and cigarettes, tackles three cases simultaneously: a killing in a corrupt ... Read more

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Set amidst the political turbulence and social unrest of contemporary Mexico City, An Easy Thing introduces English-speaking readers to Taibo's human and world-weary protagonist, independent detective Hector Belascoaran Shayne. In this debut outing, our hero, who, incidentally, possesses an insatiable appetite for Coca Cola and cigarettes, tackles three cases simultaneously: a killing in a corrupt
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Four Hands

by Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Laura C. Dail ...

DESCRIPTIONThe narrators of Paco Ignacio Taibo II's wonderfully inventive novel, FOUR HANDS, are Greg Simon and Julio Fernandez: investigative journalists uncovering an elaborate plot by an obscure American government agency to vilify the Sandinista leadership in Nicaragua. The story they discover and type out together weaves truth with lies, wild humor with tragedy, and reality with fantasy–a ... Read more

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DESCRIPTIONThe narrators of Paco Ignacio Taibo II's wonderfully inventive novel, FOUR HANDS, are Greg Simon and Julio Fernandez: investigative journalists uncovering an elaborate plot by an obscure American government agency to vilify the Sandinista leadership in Nicaragua. The story they discover and type out together weaves truth with lies, wild humor with tragedy, and reality with fantasy–a
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AN EASY THING

A Héctor Belascoarán Shayne Novel

by Paco Ignacio Taibo II ...

Paco Ignacio Taibo II is one of the most popular and influential authors in Latin and South America. His endlessly inventive, highly-political detective novels, featuring the idiosyncratic private eye Hector Belascoaran Shayne, are set in the teeming landscape of Mexico City, a combustible mix of poverty, tragic class warfare, the anarchic and absurd. For Shayne it is a world that can bring tears ... Read more

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Paco Ignacio Taibo II is one of the most popular and influential authors in Latin and South America. His endlessly inventive, highly-political detective novels, featuring the idiosyncratic private eye Hector Belascoaran Shayne, are set in the teeming landscape of Mexico City, a combustible mix of poverty, tragic class warfare, the anarchic and absurd. For Shayne it is a world that can bring tears
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Calling All Heroes

A Manual for Taking Power

by Paco Ignacio Taibo II ...

Series series Found in Translation
The euphoric idealism of grassroots reform and the tragic reality of revolutionary failure are at the center of this speculative novel that opens with a real historical event. On October 2, 1968, 10 days before the Summer Olympics in Mexico, the Mexican government responds to a student demonstration in Tlatelolco by firing into the crowd, killing more than 200 students and civilians and wounding ... Read more

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The euphoric idealism of grassroots reform and the tragic reality of revolutionary failure are at the center of this speculative novel that opens with a real historical event. On October 2, 1968, 10 days before the Summer Olympics in Mexico, the Mexican government responds to a student demonstration in Tlatelolco by firing into the crowd, killing more than 200 students and civilians and wounding
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'68

El otoño mexicano de la masacre de Tlatelolco

by Paco Ignacio Taibo II ...

Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith ...

On the night of October 2, 1968, there occurred a bloody showdown between student demonstrators and the Mexican government in Tlatelolco Square. At least two hundred students were shot dead and many more were detained. Then the bodies were trucked out, the cobblestones were washed clean. Detainees were held without recourse until 1971.Official denial of the killing continues even today: In the ... Read more

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On the night of October 2, 1968, there occurred a bloody showdown between student demonstrators and the Mexican government in Tlatelolco Square. At least two hundred students were shot dead and many more were detained. Then the bodies were trucked out, the cobblestones were washed clean. Detainees were held without recourse until 1971.Official denial of the killing continues even today: In the
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The Uncomfortable Dead (What's Missing Is Missing)

A Novel by Four Hands

by Subcomandante Marcos, Paco Ignacio Taibo ...

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 WeeklyIn alternating chapters, Zapatista leader Subcomandante Marcos and the consistently excellent Paco Ignacio Taibo II create an uproarious murder mystery with ... Read more

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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 WeeklyIn alternating chapters, Zapatista leader Subcomandante Marcos and the consistently excellent Paco Ignacio Taibo II create an uproarious murder mystery with
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Pancho Villa

A Revolutionary Life

by Paco Ignacio Taibo II ...

Translated by Todd Chretien ...

A wild ride and revealing portrait of the controversial Pancho Villa, one of Mexico’s most beloved (or loathed) heroes, that finally establishes the importance of his role in the triumph of the Mexican Revolution, by renowned writer Paco Ignacio Taibo II.The last biography of Pancho Villa was published 25 years ago, and this new edition has been translated into English for the first time. This ... Read more

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A wild ride and revealing portrait of the controversial Pancho Villa, one of Mexico’s most beloved (or loathed) heroes, that finally establishes the importance of his role in the triumph of the Mexican Revolution, by renowned writer Paco Ignacio Taibo II.The last biography of Pancho Villa was published 25 years ago, and this new edition has been translated into English for the first time. This
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Some Clouds

by Paco Ignacio Taibo ...

Series Book 2 - Hector Belascoaran Shayne Detective Novels
Mexico City detective Héctor Belascoarán Shayne is summoned home from vacation by his sister, whose childhood friend Anita has been raped and nearly killed by unknown assailants. Héctor discovers that Anita, recently married into the wealthy Costa family, has just seen her husband and his two brothers systematically murdered. Now, if she can stay alive long enough to receive it, Anita stands in ... Read more

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Mexico City detective Héctor Belascoarán Shayne is summoned home from vacation by his sister, whose childhood friend Anita has been raped and nearly killed by unknown assailants. Héctor discovers that Anita, recently married into the wealthy Costa family, has just seen her husband and his two brothers systematically murdered. Now, if she can stay alive long enough to receive it, Anita stands in
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Return to the Same City

by Paco Ignacio Taibo ...

Series Book 4 - Hector Belascoaran Shayne Detective Novels
Hector Belascoaran Shayne has danced with the dead. Luke Estrella does the rumba in white patent leather shoes. Together, they make the perfect pair to lead each other into an inferno under an azure Acapulco sky: a hell populated by mariachis and machine guns, incompetent bikini contest judges, and at least one killer who is closer to Hector than he thinks.... ... Read more

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Hector Belascoaran Shayne has danced with the dead. Luke Estrella does the rumba in white patent leather shoes. Together, they make the perfect pair to lead each other into an inferno under an azure Acapulco sky: a hell populated by mariachis and machine guns, incompetent bikini contest judges, and at least one killer who is closer to Hector than he thinks....
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No Happy Ending

by Paco Ignacio Taibo ...

Series Book 3 - Hector Belascoaran Shayne Detective Novels
The third English language case for Mexico City independent detective Hector Belascoaran Shayne, No Happy Ending, is Paco Ignacio Taibo II at his subversive, darkly comic best. First, Hector discovers the body of a dead actor, dressed like a Roman in full breastplate and regalia, propped up on the toilet in his office. Shortly thereafter, he receives a threatening letter and a snapshot of another ... Read more

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The third English language case for Mexico City independent detective Hector Belascoaran Shayne, No Happy Ending, is Paco Ignacio Taibo II at his subversive, darkly comic best. First, Hector discovers the body of a dead actor, dressed like a Roman in full breastplate and regalia, propped up on the toilet in his office. Shortly thereafter, he receives a threatening letter and a snapshot of another
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D.C. Noir

by Kenji Jasper, Jim Patton, Richard Currey ...

Series series Akashic Noir
Sixteen stories of capital crimes and misdemeanors—the basis for the film directed by George Pelecanos, producer and writer of The Wire.Mystery sensation Pelecanos pens the lead story and edits this groundbreaking collection of stories detailing the seedy underside of the nation's capital. This is not an anthology of ill-conceived and inauthentic political thrillers. Instead, in D.C. Noir, pimps, ... Read more

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Sixteen stories of capital crimes and misdemeanors—the basis for the film directed by George Pelecanos, producer and writer of The Wire.Mystery sensation Pelecanos pens the lead story and edits this groundbreaking collection of stories detailing the seedy underside of the nation's capital. This is not an anthology of ill-conceived and inauthentic political thrillers. Instead, in D.C. Noir, pimps,
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