México20
Subtitle: new voices, old traditions
By: [with forewords by DBC Pierre & Christina Rivera Garza]
Publisher: Pushkin Press; Cosejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Dirección General de Publicaciones
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London; México, D.F
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781782271345
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Mexican fiction; Translations into English; Mexican Short stories
Description: "To celebrate the Year of Mexico in the UK and the Year of the UK in Mexico in 2015, Hay Festival, the British Council and Conaculta have joined forces to bring twenty young Mexican writers under the age of forty, paired with twenty British translators, to an international readership"--Page 4 of cover.
Table of contents: title: Love song for an android  -- Juan Pablo Anaya; title: Meth Z  -- Gerardo Arana; title: The birdcage  -- Nicolá Cabral; title: Empty set  -- Verónica Gerber Bicecci; title: Red ants  -- Pergentino José; title: The leg was our altar  -- Laia Jufresa; title: Rubbed out  -- Luis Felipe Lomeli; title: A voidance  -- Brenda Lozano; title: Because night has fallen and the barbarians have not come  -- Valeria Luiselli; title: Lights in the sky  -- Fernanda Melchor; title: Hawker  -- Emiliano Monge; title: The whole big truth  -- Eduardo Montagner; title: History  -- Antonio Ortuño; title: The liturgy of the body  -- Eduardo Rabasa; title: Singing for the dead  -- Antonio Ramos Revillas; title: Madame Jazmine, or News of the decapitation  -- Eduardo Ruiz Sosa; title: Three hundred cats  -- Daniel Saldaña Paris; title: By air, land and sea  -- Ximena Sánchez Echenique; title: The black piglet of love stories  -- Carlos Velázquez; title: On the wild side -- Nadia Villafuerte.