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Author
Series
Wolfe family novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a rainy winter night in Mexico City, a ten-member wedding party is kidnapped in front of the groom's family mansion. The perpetrator is a small-time gangster named El Galán, who wants nothing more than to make his crew part of a major cartel and hopes that this crime will be his big break. He sets the wedding party's ransom at five million US dollars, to be paid in cash within 24 hours.
3) Monstrilio
Author
Publisher
Zando
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Grieving mother Magos cuts out a piece of her deceased eleven-year-old son Santiago's lung. Acting on fierce maternal instinct and the dubious logic of an old folktale, she nurtures the lung until it gains sentience, growing into the carnivorous little Monstrilio she keeps hidden within the walls of her family's decaying Mexico City estate. Eventually, Monstrilio begins to resemble the Santiago he once was, but his innate impulses--though curbed...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oceano
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Primera edición en Océano.
Physical Desc
163 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Humanity as a commodity: that is the cynical, carnival, explosive background of Materialismo histérico. Fables without uplifting morals, their stories paint a society in which to sell, buy, bribe, and blackmail. Together, they form a giant picture of rapacious capitalism turned modern: a world where ambition, power, credit, and commissions are the only engines of existence.
Author
Publisher
Del Rey, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a riveting noir about a daydreaming secretary, a lonesome thug, and the mystery of the missing woman that brings them together. 1970s Mexico City. Maite is a secretary who lives for one thing: the latest issue of Secret Romance. While student protests and political unrest consume the city, Maite escapes into stories of passion and danger. Her next-door neighbor, Leonora, a beautiful...
6) The matador
Publisher
The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A struggling salesman forms an unexpected bond with a lonely hit man who suspects he's "lost his touch."
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