Battles in the Desert & Other Stories

by José Emilio Pacheco, Katherine Silver (Translator)

Overview

Intense, despairing accounts of life in Mexico City.

Seven stories depict harsh realities of life in urban Mexico and the tragedies of childhood innocence betrayed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780811210201
Publisher:	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date:	05/17/1987
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	849,569
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

José Emilio Pacheco (1939- ) is one of Mexico’s foremost poets, novelists, and essayists. A lifelong resident of Mexico City, Pacheco has been a guest lecturer throughout the United States, Canada, Great Britain. Some of Pacheco’s best known collections of poetry includeMiro la tierra(which documented the Mexico City earthquake),El reposo del fuego,Fin de siglo y otros poemas,Arbol entere dos muros/Tree between two walls, andSelected Poems. HisNo me preguntas cómo pasa el tiempowas awarded Mexico’s National Poetry Prize. New Directions publishes two titles by Emilio Pacheco:Battles in the Desert & Other Stories, translated by Katherine Silver; andSelected Poems, Edited by George McWhirter with various translators (bilingual) (both 1987).