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 chapters, Eve decides to tell her version of the story of Genesis: she was not created from Adam's rib, nor was she expelled for taking the apple from the serpent; the story of Abel and Cain isn't true, neither are those of the Flood and the Tower of Babel . . . In brilliant prose, Carmen...

"Mexico's greatest woman writer."-Roberto Bolaño "A luminous writer . . . Boullosa is a masterful spinner of the fantastic"-Miami Herald An imaginative writer in the tradition of Juan Rulfo, Jorge Luis Borges, and Cesar Aira, Carmen Boullosa shows herself to be at the height of her powers with her latest novel. Loosely based on the little-known 1859 Mexican invasion of the United States, Texas is a richly imagined evocation of the volatile Tex-Mex...

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 manuscripts she wrote just before her death, one of which opens a trapdoor to a wild feminist fairytale. Across the city, Clementine, an anarchist seamstress, and Father Gapón, the charismatic leader of the proletariat,...

La protagonista de esta novela de Carmen Boullosa retorna, como acaso lo hubieran querido Euridice o Beatriz, a los territorios de la infancia: esa condicion salvajemente desordenada donde se genera la conciencia. La infanta de Antes, salta el cerco del jardin de las palabras para recobrar de ellas su inocencia, sabe que en el miedo principia el alfabeto de su historia: la de una identidad que como su cuerpo escapa a la vida. Antes recibio el Premio...

Cielos de la Tierra es, ademas, una nueva propuesta literaria que recoge dos manuscritos en un texto: la cronica escrita en el siglo XVI por Hernando de Rivas, quien ya viejo narra en latin la verdadera historia del Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco, ya la version de Estela Diaz, quien en la dificil decada de los noventa encuentra el manuscrito y cree hallar en el una reflexion sobre el presente y su historia personal; finalmente, Lear, una mujer...