num_pages: 288
description: Set in Mexico in the 1930s and 1940s, this book tells of a woman whose husband's corrupt rise to power disgusts her and prompts her to take a lover. The love affair is set within the framework of a corrupt political system, in which events are manipulated to monopolize power.
language: English
title: Mexican Bolero
titlecomplete: Mexican Bolero
genres: Fiction, Historical, Spanish Literature, Latin American, Romance, Latin American Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 12119
awards: awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Premio Mazatlán de Literatura
publisher: Penguin