Bøger af Hector Aguilar Camin

"El resplandor de la madera es la historia de Casares, un mexicano de origen socioeconâomico bajo que, marcado por las aspiraciones inculcadas por su madre, emprende sus estudios y su vida profesional intentando salir de la miseria y la ignorancia sin perderse en el camino, que es exactamente lo que le sucediâo a su padre, quien tras invertir en negocios imposibles perdiâo su fortuna, su identidad y su familia. Pero el genial Aguilar Camâin va mucho mâas allâa de esta lograda y desgarradora historia individual y combina las desventuras de Casares con la historia de sus antepasados y de la penâinsula de Yucatâan, donde se desarrolla la novela" --

"A Murmur over the River is the story of a love cut short and, at the same time, parable of a generation in search of a just world, quest that left them with the bitter taste of hurt and failure. It is told abruptly by Antonio Salcido, one of the protagonists, during a drive with his attentive friend Salmerón, the snow-capped volcanos as witnesses."--

Una magistral novela de intriga y suspenso sobre el auge petrolero de los años setenta.Morir en el Golfo es la puesta en escena de un pleito mortal, un trazo nítido e inquietante del modo en que se da la lucha por algunos espacios de poder en el México contemporáneo. De un lado, la hermosa y perversa Anabela Guillaumin y su marido, el desorbitado político Francisco Rojano. Del otro, un cacique sindical petrolero, Lázaro Pizarro, encarnación del mundo corporativo y autoritario mexicano.   En medio, el narrador de la historia, un columnista influyente, arrastrado al conflicto por su amistad con Anabella y Rojano. Frente a ellos, testigo y árbitro, el personaje sin nombre, jefe de la policía política del país, administrador de las sombras y los secretos del Estado.ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Dying in the Gulf is the staging of a deadly lawsuit, a clear and disturbing portrait of the ways in which the struggle for power takes place in contemporary Mexico. On the one side, we find the beautiful and perverse Anabela Guillaumin and her husband, the steep politician Francisco Rojano. On the other, the oil union boss, Lázaro Pizarro, is the incarnation of the Mexican corporate authoritarian world.    The narrator of the story, an influential columnist, is drawn into the conflict because of his friendship with Anabella and Rojano. Standing right in front of them, a nameless character who is the head of the country’s political police, with access to all kinds of privileged information, acts as witness and judge.

"How to describe this harmony of things so deeply inharmonic, destined only to a single moment of happiness?" We are all our future ghost. We carry it within us as the seed of what we will become. This is a novel about what six inordinate friends were--and are as we read; all inhabitants of a boarding house carefully evoked, facing a park full of jacarandas in Mexico City, back in the 1960's. The youngsters at the house spend their time outdoors. They are not heroes, but of the briefness of their age. Their modest epic consists in exerting a wild fraternity. They are wrapped around the randomness of a burgeoning city, sought-after nights, and the prelude to endless love that is brief sex. Ghosts in the Terrace is a novel about the nostalgia of a past time, escaping our grip and taking us with it. It is a story about ghosts, as every story about joy should be.--Translation of the Spanish summary from the publisher.

An authoritative and comprehensive history of post-revolutionary Mexico by two of the country's leading intellectuals.Hector Aguilar Camin and Lorenzo Meyer set out to fill a void in the literature on Mexican history: the lack of a single text to cover the history of Mexico during the twentieth century. In the Shadow of the Mexican Revolution, covers the Mexican Revolution itself, the gradual consolidation of institutions, the Cardenas regime, the "e;Mexican economic miracle"e; and its subsequent collapse, and the recent transition toward a new historical period.The authors explore Mexico's turbulent recent history as it becomes increasingly intertwined with that of the United States. First published in Spanish as A la sombra de la Revolucion Mexicana, this English-language edition offers US readers an intelligent and accessible study of their neighbor to the south.