num_pages: 199
description: The celebrated American writer and journalist Ambrose Bierce mysteriously disapeared in Mexico during its civil war. In this brilliant novel, Carlos Fuentes imagines the fate of Bierce among Pancho Villa's troops and dramatizes the conflict of North America's two cultures locked in deadly embrace.
language: English
title: The Old Gringo
titlecomplete: The Old Gringo
characters: Frutos García, El niño Pedrito, Inocencio Mansalvo, Ambrose Bierce, Mujer de la cara de la luna, La Garduña, Tomás Arroyo, Harriet Winslow, Pancho Villa
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Latin American, Classics, Spanish Literature, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literature, Westerns, Novels
ratings_count: 3447
places: Mexico, Washington, D.C.
awards: awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux