Los niños de la luna

Shares the raw testimonies of several youths at the turn of the century, revealing what occurs day to day in many parts of Mexico and Latin America.

Unified by an acidic humor, the stories in this collection function as a mirror of a reality that, at first glance, may seem deformed. An overweight man whose wife puts him on a diet of cocaine so that he loses weight, a teenager with Down syndrome who becomes a star keyboardist in a failed punk band, and a black pig with the airs of a diva who dictates wonderful romance novels to its perturbed owner are some of the characters that inhabit Carlos Velázquez’s deranged world. With language that breaks all molds and falls more in line with oral tradition, this book of short stories...

In this essay about the challenges, decisions, and conflicts that surround men in contemporary Mexico, Juana In�s Dehesa applies the analytical intelligence and humor that characterize her as an author. She explores why men want to be single (at least in her experience), why they don't call you, why they disappear after the third date, how the define love, and what their emotional aspirations are that govern their lives. This highly anticipated response to Treintona, soltera y fant�stica, gives a strong but loving dose of reality.

El Pilgrim era uno de los más pequeños, aunque uno de los mejores barcos de la flotilla que James W. Weldon enviaba, todas las estaciones, unas veces hasta más allá del estrecho de Behring, por los mares boreales, y otras a los parajes de Tasmania o del cabo de Hornos, hasta el océano Antártico. Navegaba muy bien. Su aparejo, muy manejable, le permitía aventurarse con pocos hombres por entre los impenetrables bloques de hielo del hemisferio austral. El capitán Hull sabía desenvolverse, como dicen los marinos, en medio de aquellos hielos que, durante el verano, derivan hacia Nueva...