Batallas y Campañas

This novel features the reader as a protagonist. The narrator, a frustrated college professor who happens to be "our friend," addresses the reader constantly ("You, the one holding this book"). Set in the year 2025, the novel immerses the reader in such fictitious worlds as La Rmoras, a town in Baja California that appears in one of Urroz's previous works. The author presents comical anecdotes about Mexican history (Pancho Villa is almost murdered by Japanese cooks), current urban problems that continue in the future (poverty, corruption, and pollution), and the world of academia....

This engrossing and hypnotic tale of witchcraft and the occult spans four centuries of the prominent and wealthy Mayfair family, a dynasty of witches that is haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being over the ages. The Mayfair family tries to understand and destroy the terrible force that holds the family in its power in this first book of the Mayfair Witches series.

Dos razas: humana y alienígena. Esta última invade a la tierra, pues se consideran una raza superior que quiere dominar a los humanos porque son un virus que destrozan su hogar. Pero una mujer supo que cuanto más nos mezclábamos y más nos comprendemos los unos a los otros, mejor futuro tendríamos.

Crónica admirable y risueña, sátira que deslumbra por el ingenio y una mordacidad que no excluye la sonrisa comprensiva. Manuel Mujica Lainez ha logrado una vez más un insoslayable documento de Buenos Aires.