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Nietzsche on His Balcony
(Mexican Literature)
by Carlos Fuentes, Alejandro Branger, E. Shaskan Bumas, Ethan Shaskan Bumas
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2016 by Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-62897-158-3, ISBN: 1-62897-158-4

"On a hot, insomniac night at the Hotel Metropol, the novelist Carlos Fuentes steps onto his balcony only to find another man on the balcony next door. The other man asks for news of the social strife turning into revolution in the unnamed city below them. He reveals himself as the 19th-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, permitted to revisit earth once a year for 24 hours based on his theory of eternal return. With tenderness and g ..."

Adam in Eden(1st Edition)
by Carlos Fuentes, Ethan Shaskan Bumas, Alejandro Branger, E. Shaskan Bumas
Hardcover, 201 Pages, Published 2012 by Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-796-5, ISBN: 1-56478-796-6

"In this comic novel of political intrigue, Adam Gorozpe, a respected businessman in Mexico, has a life so perfect that he might as well be his namesake in the Garden. But there are snakes in this Garden too, and in order to save his relationship, his marriage, his life, and the soul of his country, he may have to call upon the wrath of the angels to expel all these serpents from his Mexican Eden.In this comic novel of political int ..."

The Price of Tea in China(1st Edition)
(Associated Writing Programs Award for Short Fiction Ser.)
by E. Shaskan Bumas
Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 1995 by University Of Massachusetts Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-87023-930-4, ISBN: 0-87023-930-9

""It's right across the ocean," said Shelly. "Froot Loops," said ... No more rice," Shelly said. "At this point, I have ... "Give it to a pedicab," said Moe. "Thirty-minute delivery or they take one dollar off the price." "F.E.C.?" asked Phillip. Shelly declared ..."

4(1st Edition)
56: Poems
by Carlos Fuentes Lemus, Ethan Shaskan Bumas, Juan Goytisolo
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2012 by Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-679-1, ISBN: 1-56478-679-X

"These poems by Carlos Fuentes Lemus (1973-1999), son of the author of Terra Nostra and Christopher Unborn, are an introduction to the unique voice of a sensitive but unsentimental young poet who became aware of his mortality at a very early age. A hemophiliac who as a child contracted HIV from contaminated blood products, he struggled to come to terms with his condition through the practice of art while paying homage to those artists fr ..."

Vlad
by Carlos Fuentes, Alejandro Branger, Ethan Shaskan Bumas
Hardcover, 122 Pages, Published 2012 by Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-779-8, ISBN: 1-56478-779-6

"Where, Carlos Fuentes asks, is a modern-day vampire to roost? Why not Mexico City, populated by ten million blood sausages (that is, people), and a police force who won't mind a few disappearances? "Vlad" is Vlad the Impaler, of course, whose mythic cruelty was an inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula. In this sly sequel, Vlad really is undead: dispossessed after centuries of mayhem by Eastern European wars and rampant blood shortages. ..."

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