City of Palaces A Novel

Name: City of Palaces A Novel
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ISBN: 9780299299101

ISBN-10: 0299299104

ISBN-13: 9780299299101

Edition: 2014

Authors: Michael Nava

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In the years before the Mexican Revolution, Mexico is ruled by a tiny elite that apes European culture, grows rich from foreign investment, and prizes racial purity. The vast majority of Mexicans, who are native or of mixed native and Spanish blood, are politically powerless and slowly starving to death. Presiding over this corrupt system is Don Porfirio Díaz, the ruthless and inscrutable president of the Republic. Against this backdrop, The City of Palaces opens in a Mexico City jail with the meeting of Miguel Sarmiento and Alicia Gavilán. Miguel is a principled young doctor, only recently returned from Europe but wracked by guilt for a crime he committed as a medical student…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 4/10/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.188

Michael Nava is a Lambda Literary Award-winning author of gay mystery novels. He wrote the introduction to the Little Sister's Classics edition of Blackbird by Larry Duplechan in 2006.