Paco Ignacio Taibo, II, Author Seven Stories Press $12.95 (141p) ISBN 978-1-58322-608-7
Now available for the first time in English, Mexican author and essayist Taibo's beautifully realized memoir of the Oct. 1968 Tlatelolco student massacre in Mexico City documents""The Movement"" of students that, at one point, was half a million...
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Paco Ignacio Taibo, II, Author Viking Books $16.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-670-82462-5
Cynical, divorced, insomniac Mexican private eye Hector Belascoaran Shayne weaves and slices his way through the existential fog of Mexico City in this witty, literate, first-rate detective novel. Taibo, president of the International Association of
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Paco Ignacio Taibo, II, Author Plover Press $16.95 (113p) ISBN 978-0-917635-08-3
In 1970, recovering from a knife wound, Nestor, a journalist and partisan of the Mexican Movement of 1968, enlists his friends to help him recall the details of the protests, which culminated in the massacre of 49 students by army troops. Later,...
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Paco Ignacio Taibo, II, Author Penguin Books $4.5 (240p) ISBN 978-0-14-011523-9
A Mexican private eye tackles three mysteries at once--a kidnapping, two murders at a steel plant and rumors that a famed Mexican Revolution martyr is still alive. ``In complexity of social setting, ingenious plotting and philosophical depth, Taibo...
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Paco Ignacio Taibo, II, Author, William I. Neuman, Translator Penguin Books $9 (240p) ISBN 978-0-14-013083-6
Four friends in 1920s Mexico City champion the rights of the common man in this glorious literary thriller. Forthcoming simultaneously from Viking is Taibo's latest, Some Clouds . (July)
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Paco Ignacio Taibo, II, Author, William I. Neuman, Translator Viking Books $19 (176p) ISBN 978-0-670-83825-7
In a spare narrative voice that packs a wallop, Taibo ( The Shadow of the Shadow ) describes a Mexico City teeming with corruption, passion and hazards for his one-eyed, half-Irish, half-Basque, Coca-Cola-swilling PI, Hector Belascoaran Shayne....
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Paco Ignacio Taibo, II, Author, William I. Neuman, Translator Viking Books $18.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-670-83177-7
This glorious novel reads as if James M. Cain and Dashiell Hammett had collaborated with Gabriel Garcia Marquez on a version of The Three Musketeers set in 1920s, postrevolutionary Mexico City. Taibo's ( An Easy Thing ) four memorable protagonists...
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Paco Ignacio Taibo, II, Author, Paco Ignacio Talbo, Author, William I. Neuman, Translator Mysterious Press $17.95 (175p) ISBN 978-0-89296-517-5
The body discovered in the bathroom of the Mexico City office of Hector Belascoaran Shayne is dressed as a Roman soldier but the history that Taibo's ``independent detective'' probes in this dark, indelible tale is considerably more recent and local.
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Paco Ignacio Taibo, II, Author, Martin Roberts, Translator Thomas Dunne Books $35 (624p) ISBN 978-0-312-15539-1
This is the third biography of Ernesto Guevara de la Serna to appear in the year in which his mutilated body was retrieved from an unmarked grave in Bolivia and ceremoniously reburied in Cuba. The first, Che, by Jon Lee Anderson (Forecasts, March 10)
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Paco Ignacio Taibo, II, Author, Beth Henson, Translator Mysterious Press $18.95 (209p) ISBN 978-0-89296-518-2
In Taibo's irresistible noir-meets-magic realism approach, wit and politics are central to the narrative. Jose Daniel Fierro seems an unlikely candidate for police chief in the Mexican border town of Santa Ana. A crime writer who has never fired a...
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Paco Ignacio Taibo, II, Author, Subcomandante Marcos, Author, Carlos Lopez, Translator , trans. from the Spanish by Carlos Lopez. Akashic $15.95 (268p) ISBN 978-1-933354-07-1
Mexican crime writer Taibo and a real-life spokesperson for the Zapatista movement, Subcomandante Marcos, provide alternating chapters for this postmodern comedic mystery about good, evil and modern revolutionary politics. Elías Contreras, a...
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Paco Ignacio Taibo, II, Author, Laura Dail, Translator Mysterious Press $25 (192p) ISBN 978-0-89296-590-8
Taibo's novels about Mexico City detective Hector Belascoaran Shayne (No Happy Ending) are an addicting import. At first, their hard-boiled surrealistic flights--as if Garcia Marquez had been taking writing lessons from Dashiell Hammett--can strike...
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Paco Ignacio Taibo, II, Author, Martin Michael Roberts, Translator Cinco Puntos Press $21.95 (173p) ISBN 978-0-938317-47-0
As an activist in Mexico in the '60s, Paco Ignacio Taibo II began a search for figures in leftist history that his generation could look up to. Today an internationally famous detective novelist (An Easy Thing, etc.), the writer has validated his...
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Paco Ignacio Taibo, II, Author, Martin Michael Roberts, Translator Mysterious Press $21.95 (453p) ISBN 978-0-89296-589-2
Mexican novelist Taibo (No Happy Ending, Life Itself) has already secured a name with his inventive, slangy books, the last of which introduced his investigator-novelist Jose Daniel Ferro. This is a much bigger, more ambitious book than his previous
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Paco Ignacio Taibo, II, Author, Bill Verner, Translator Cinco Puntos Press $13.95 (120p) ISBN 978-0-938317-58-6
""If anyone wants to read this book as a simple mystery novel, that's his business,"" sniffs Argentinean journalist Rudolfo Walsh in an epigraph. Bill Verner translates Paco Ignacio Taibo II's spare, literary Frontera Dreams: A Hector Balascor n...
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Paco Ignacio Taibo, II, Author, Laura C. Dail, Translator Picador USA $13 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-13079-4
Two journalists-one Mexican, the other American-each tell the story of a plot to vilify the Nicaraguan Sandinistas in this complex tale that weaves together real and fictional characters including Pancho Villa, Stan Laurel and Harry Houdini. (July)
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Paco Ignacio Taibo, II, Author, Laura C. Dail, Translator St. Martin's Press $22.95 (378p) ISBN 978-0-312-10987-5
Deadly tricks of the international spy trade illuminate various tactics of survival, collaboration, disinformation--and the creative process--in this complex tale of journalism and subversion in Latin America. Cycling back and forth in time and...
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Paco Ignacio Taibo, II, Author, Ezra E. Fitz, Translator, Erza E. Fitz, Translator , trans. from the Spanish by Ezra R. Fitz. St. Martin's $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-30156-9
Taibo, Mexico's most famous detective novelist, is not your usual plot-bound chronicler of shamuses: "The novel," according to Taibo, "like reality, like the histories we all know and those that befall us, is full of parentheses,...
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