No Man's Land: Selected Stories

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In the no-man's-land of Mexico's far north harsh desert landscapes, bruising border towns, urban wastelands and fantastical rural villages, migrants, campesinos and travelers find themselves lost between reality and delirium, tragedy and exaltation. No Mans Land features ten stories with an unflinching gaze onto the fragility and brutality of life

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"It's always extremely difficult to write about the limits of human suffering without descending into voyeurism. But not for Eduardo Parra. From preop prostitutes robbed of their sex change money to loving homeless couples on the doorstep of death, Parra explores the fate of modern Mexico's lowest strata with the literary imagination of a 19th-century Russian novelist and an ethnographer's eye for detail. Simultaneously horrified and yet oddly hopeful, No Man's Land is a stunning introduction to one of Latin America's best new writers." -- Joel Schalit, author of Jerusalem Calling

Author Bio

Eduardo Antonio Parra (Len, Guanajuato, 1965) is the author of two story collections, Los lmites de la noche and Tierra de nadie. His stories have received numerous national prizes, and they have been published, along with his essays, in various journals and magazines in Mexico. This is his first publication in English.