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One of Asturias' most famous novels, El Señor Presidente, describes life under a ruthless dictator. The novel influenced later Latin American novelists in its mixture of realism and fantasy. [2] Asturias' very public opposition to dictatorial rule led to him spending much of his later life in exile, both in South America and in Europe.
- Novelist
- 9 June 1974 (aged 74), Madrid, Spain
- Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales, 19 October 1899, Guatemala City, Guatemala
- The Wives Of Los Alamos by TaraShea Nesbit. In World War II, Los Alamos, a craggy zone, was a secret space torn from the rest of the United States. The site of the classified Manhattan Project, a research development that honed in on creating nuclear weapons, Los Alamos hit the peak of high-tension in the 1940s.
- Georgia O’Keeffe by Roxana Robinson. Roxana Robinson’s detailed biography dives into the nitty-gritty details of Georgia O’Keeffe’s personal life. Known as the Mother of American modernism, O’Keeffe is the queen of riveting, delicate, and sensuous works.
- The Pot Thief Mystery Series by J. Michael Orenduff. The Pot Thief series – comedic, light-hearted, and at-times nonsensical – is all fun. Hubert Schuze, a self-titled pottery thief, has a tendency to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
- Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac. When I picked up this novel, I had no idea it was classified as young adult (upon reading it, I think it might actually fall closer to middle grade).
- Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya. “Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic.
- Death Comes For The Archbishop by Willa Cather. “Willa Cather’s best known novel is an epic–almost mythic–story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.
- Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford. “In the summer of 1944, Frank Arnold, a wealthy shipbuilder in Mobile, Alabama, receives his volunteer commission in the U.S. Navy and moves his wife, Ann, and seventeen-year-old son, Josh, to the family’s summer home in the village of Corazon Sagrado, high in the New Mexico mountains.
- The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy. “In the late 1930s, sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures a she-wolf that has been marauding his family’s ranch. But instead of killing it, he decides to take it back to the mountains of Mexico.
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One of Asturias' most famous novels, El Señor Presidente, describes life under a ruthless dictator. Asturias' very public opposition to dictatorial rule led to him spending much of his later life in exile, both in South America and in Europe.
Sep 26, 2018 · Award-winning author Xuan Bello originally published this book in the now-defunct Asturian-language weekly Les Noticies; the Spanish translation came out two years later. A mix of poetry, short stories, oral history, and journalistic narrative, this story takes place in the tiny fictional town of Paniceiros.
Aug 22, 2022 · Classics. Abbey, Edward (1927-1989) Abbey is a well-known nature writer, best known for Desert Solitaire. He wrote two books set in New Mexico: Fire on the Mountain and The Brave Cowboy. Anaya, Rudolfo (1937- 2020) Anaya was an extremely versatile and prolific writer. He is the author of the quintessential New Mexican work, Bless Me, Ultima ...
- Laura Calderone
- 2016
Jan 1, 2024 · For a true taste of the American Southwest, consider a trip to New Mexico. Spanning approximately 121,000 square miles, the state is famous for its rich Indigenous history, vast landscapes (from ...
