From Mexico's preeminent man of letters, "a Balzacian novel in nine masterly stories" (Vanity Fair) that explores the "uneven and painful meshing of two North american cultures" (Washington Post Book World). A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. Translated by Alfred Mac Adam.
- ISBN10 0156006200
- ISBN13 9780156006200
- Publish Date 1 January 1998 (first published 1 October 1997)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 September 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Thomson Learning
- Format Paperback
- Pages 266
- Language English