85-year old Gabriel García Marquez has authorized release of his work as free eBooks…
I can’t get Cien Años to download (it’s a win-zip file, as are most of the longer works available… the shorter pieces are in word documents), but I’ve already got that in dead tree editions in English and Spanish… so maybe I’ll try again later, but wow… just WOW!
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The background of Mexican anti-clericalism and the "atheist" general who led the Catholic counter-revolution of the 1920s 128 pp., Editorial Mazatlán, 2012.
An oral history of the World War II experiences of Gilberto Bosques (1894 – 1997), Mexico 's Consul General in Marseilles, France, who saved tens of thousands from the Nazis. 36 pp. Editorial Mazatlán, 2007 $35 MXP (click the image)
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