ARGONAUT BOOKS

A searing collection of true stories by Mexico's most exciting writer. Reviews 'The result is an absorbing, compassionately rendered portrait of a place, its people and its ills. The stories are punctuated by brief but telling allusions to the material conditions that sustain the moral degradation she describes: police corruption, social security cuts, prison overcrowding, unscrupulous building contractors. Melchor's macabre aesthetic has shades of gothic horror, but she is a Dickensian at heart.' - Houman Barekat, Sunday Times'Melchor evokes the stories of Flann...Read More