El arte de la novela en el post-boom latinoamericano

A group of thirty chronicles that Fabrizio Meja Madrid spun along thirteen years while strolling up and down the national territory, from the forest to the desert, from the mountains to the highlands, to end, like so many other Mexicans every year, crossing the northern frontier. New drugs, saints with beatified roosters, murderers of one night and of one life, communards with "machetes" and teachers surrounding the foreigner murdered in Oaxaca, a town of kidnappers and three missing towns, the television that presents circus phenomena, the fantasies of the national porn, the corpses of too...

There is a ghost in the girls' bathroom at school! It's the coolest thing that has ever happened there until the teachers find out. Will Ivy and Bean find a way to get the ghost out of the bathroom? Don't put anything past these two friends.

Un joven de 19 años termina enlistado en el ejército e internado en las selvas del Putumayo para enfrentar a las FARC; una mujer regresa a su pueblo luego de ser secuestrada y tras haberse enterado de que fue señalada por alguno de sus vecinos; un grupo de guerrilleros escribe cartas de amor en medio de la guerra; un bailarín de ladera baila salsa con Jennifer López en Las Vegas; una pareja asiste a una fiesta swinger para reactivar el amor; un predador de cuerpos cuenta qué pasa cuando arregla un cadáver de prisa; un mimo de calle que no habla francés ingresa al camerino de Marcel...

"Although there are other works on the linguistic interactions between the English and Spanish languages inside the Cuban community in the Greater Miami area, this book is an all encompassing study that lets us see where the language stands today, using recent trends that also let us project what will occur to the Spanish language in the near future.. At the same time, the book offers a clear picture, using current statistics, of what the Cuban community in Miami has accomplished in just four decades."