Books by Montserrat Fontes and Complete Book Reviews
Montserrat Fontes, Author W. W. Norton & Company $18.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-393-02891-1
Two privileged nine-year-olds, headstrong Andrea Durcal and her gentle cousin Victor, become dangerously entangled in events beyond their grasp in a Mexican border town in 1947. The lives of the Durcals are altered by a disastrous chain of events:...
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Montserrat Fontes, Author W. W. Norton & Company $13 (349p) ISBN 978-0-393-31605-6
A ""powerful and noteworthy"" coming-of-age story set during the turn-of-the-century displacement of Mexico's Yaqui Indians. (Apr.)
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Montserrat Fontes, Author W. W. Norton & Company $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-393-03847-7
Set in Mexico at the turn of the century, Fontes's fiercely lyrical second novel (after First Confession) tells of a Mexican family caught up in the Yaqui Indians' struggle against the ruthless dictatorship of President Porfirio Diaz. Alejo Durcal...
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