I took a university extension course on doing business with/in Mexico a while back, and the instructor (excellent instructor, his wife was a deputy consul at the local Mexican consulate) assigned
The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes as one of the "textbooks"
for us to read. I really enjoyed both the book and the understanding I gained.
I've had an eReaderIQ author search on Fuentes ever since, and now another book of his,
The Death of Artemio Cruz, has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. I haven't read this one, but it sounds pretty interesting, and given how much I liked
The Old Gringo, I'm going to get it, and put it fairly high on my TBR list.
Kindle US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BQMKDAI/
Kindle US/Smile:
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BQMKDAI/
Kobo US:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...f-artemio-cruz
Spoiler:
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As the novel opens, Artemio Cruz, the all-powerful newspaper magnate and land baron, lies confined to his bed and, in dreamlike flashes, recalls the pivotal episodes of his life. Carlos Fuentes manipulates the ensuing kaleidoscope of images with dazzling inventiveness, layering memory upon memory, from Cruz's heroic campaigns during the Mexican Revolution, through his relentless climb from poverty to wealth, to his uneasy death. Perhaps Fuentes's masterpiece, The Death of Artemio Cruz is a haunting voyage into the soul of modern Mexico.
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