Mexico’s “elder stateswoman” of letters, 89 year old Elena Pontiatowska, was out with her grandchildren last Sunday when someone broke into her house. A computer and a DVD player were stolen. Lamentedly, Pontiatowska noted, NOT A SINGLE BOOK. And, that, she says, is the real crime.
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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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