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Las batallas en el desierto

Pages
68
Published
2005
Language
Spanish

Synopsis

Carlos is a young boy growing up in Mexico City during the late 1940s, a time of rapid modernization and change. His life is forever altered when he falls in love with the mother of his best friend, a confession that leads to social ostracization and the painful end of his childhood. This short, evocative novel captures the fleeting nature of memory and the loss of a bygone era.

About the author

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José Emilio Pacheco

José Emilio Pacheco Berny (1939–2014) was a Mexican poet, novelist, essayist and translator, widely regarded as one of the leading figures of Mexican literature in the second half of the twentieth century. Born in Mexico City, he began publishing in student journals while studying at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and later taught at universities in Mexico, the United States, Canada and England. His poetry — collected in volumes including Los elementos de la noche (1963), No me pr...