num_pages: 320
description: Police and soldiers across Tamaulipas, Mexico's north-eastern state are hunting Chano Salgado. A reclusive young widower and political apostate, Salgado is forced to go on the run after he is persuaded to blow up the pipelines of Ethylclad, a sluicing operation sucking the local groundwater dry.
language: English
title: The Fountain at the Centre of the World
titlecomplete: The Fountain at the Centre of the World
genres: Fiction, Novels
ratings_count: 144
publisher: Verso Books