Mexico City Noir (Akashic Noir) - Softcover

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9781933354903: Mexico City Noir (Akashic Noir)

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ISBN 10: 1933354909 ISBN 13: 9781933354903

Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd., 2010

Brand-new stories by: Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Eugenio Aguirre, Eduardo Antonia Parra, Bernardo Fern�ndez Bef, �scar de la Borbolla, Rolo D�ez, Victor Luiz Gonz�lez, F.G. Haghenbeck, Juan Hern�ndez Luna, Myriam Laurini, Eduardo Monteverde, and Julia Rodr�guez.

Paco Ignacio Taibo II was born in Gij�n, Spain, and has lived in Mexico since 1958. He is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, which have been published in many languages around the world, including a mystery series starring Mexican Private Investigator H�ctor Belascoar�n Shayne. He is a professor of history at the Metropolitan University of Mexico City.

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Taibo was born in Gijon, Spain and has lived in Mexico since 1958. He is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, which have been published in many languages around the world, including a mystery series starring Mexican Private Investigator H�ctor Belascoar�n Shayne. He is a professor of history at the Metropolitcan Unviersity of Mexico City.

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Taibo's introduction, evocatively titled Snow White vs. Dr. Frankenstein, is more compelling than any of the 12 stories in this slim anthology in Akashic's celebrated noir series. The real-life examples of corruption Taibo cites, including a drug kingpin serving as head of an anti-narcotics police force, are almost beyond belief, but few of the contributors, including Taibo himself, do justice to Mexico City's rampant violence and cynicism. Eduardo Antonio Parra's I'm Nobody convincingly presents the perspective of a street person, who may or may not know the truth behind a murder. �scar de la Borbolla's Outside the Door, which depicts how well-meaning neighbors become paralyzed despite suspecting that a rape or murder has been committed in a nearby apartment, comes closest to enabling the reader to understand the insidious effects on the soul of living in a society where those charged with keeping the public safe can't be trusted. (Feb.)
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PublisherAkashic Books, Ltd.
Publication date2010
ISBN 10 1933354909
ISBN 13 9781933354903
BindingPaperback
Number of pages250
EditorPaco Ignacio Taibo II
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