F. G. Haghenbeck

One of Mexico’s most celebrated new novelists, F. G. Haghenbeck offers a beautifully written reimagining of Frida Kahlo’s fascinating life and loves. When several notebooks were recently discovered among Frida Kahlo’s belongings at her home in Coyoacán, Mexico City, acclaimed Mexican novelist F. G. Haghenbeck was inspired to write this beautifully wrought fictional account of her life. Haghenbeck imagines that, after Frida nearly died when a streetcar’s iron handrail pierced her abdomen during a traffic accident, she received one of the notebooks as a gift from her lover Tina Modotti. Frida called the notebook “The Hierba Santa Book” (The Sacred Herbs Book) and filled it with memories, ideas, and recipes. Haghenbeck takes readers on a magical ride through Frida’s passionate life: her long and tumultuous relationship with Diego Rivera, the development of her art, her complex personality, her hunger for experience, and her ardent feminism. This stunning narrative also details her remarkable relationships with Georgia O’Keeffe, Leon Trotsky, Nelson Rockefeller, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Henry Miller, and Salvador Dalí. Combining rich, luscious prose with recipes from “The Hierba Santa Book,” Haghenbeck tells the extraordinary story of a woman whose life was as stunning a creation as her art.

A Novel

The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo

El diablo me obligó

Raymundo "Ray" Rey lives an uneventful life in a remote village, lost among the cornfields. His father works in a hardware store, his mother is a housewife, his sister is the most popular girl in school, and he daydreams while reading adventure novels. But one day his life completely changes with the arrival of the "outsiders", a group of elders who travel in a caravan and settle in a clearing on the outskirts of the city. From that moment, strange and unpleasant things begin to happen in the town, including the death of several of its inhabitants.

Deidades Menores

Tanya Huntington

Private detective Sunny Pascal is hired to babysit the cast of a movie filming in Puerto Vallarta, but when someone is shot down by a gun belonging to one of the cast members, he has to keep them out of jail while he solves the murder.

Bitter Drink

Reyna Grande

Laura Esquivel

Guillermo Arriaga

Javier Valdes

Atria Español Presents: The Best of Mexican Literature Get acquainted with the work of some of the greatest authors of Mexican heritage with Atria Español Presents: The Best of Mexican Literature. This sampler has all the ingredients that makeup some of the best books that Mexican Literature has to offer. You’ll find excerpts from: Malinche by Laura Esquivel The Night Buffalo by Guillermo Arriaga The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo by F.G. Haghenbeck Across a Hundred Mountains by Reyna Grande People Like Us by Javier Valdés No matter what your literary preferences are, we know you’ll find something here to satisfy you.

Atria Español Presents: The Best of Mexican Literature

En esta ocasión, Sunny Pascal deja atrás Hollywood para dirigirse a Acapulco, donde lo han contratado para cuidarle las espaldas a un viejo actor que, tras retirarse de la pantalla grande, pasa sus últimos días en el puerto. El año es 1965 y el viejo actor no es otro que Johnny Weissmüller, excampeón olímpico de natación a quien todos recuerdan como el mejor Tarzán que ha dado el cine. Acapulco es por entonces el sitio de reunión favorito de las celebridades, pero también de mafiosos, tahúres y estafadores. Pascal tendrá muchos problemas al tratar de sacar a Johnny de las dificultades en las que se encuentra metido a causa de su afición al alcohol y al juego. Mientras se celebra un afamado festival de cine. Muy pronto las cosas se ponen aún más complicadas y las balas comienzan a pasar muy cerca del protagonista.

El caso tequila

Bernardo Fernández

Humberto Ramos

Gerardo Sifuentes

José Luis Zárate

Eve Gil

Antonio Ramos

Hilario Peña

Maritza Campos

Fixión Narradores

El Capitán Zap, Ultra Chica, Garbage Man, Seina, la Chica Satélite, el Joven Plástico de Burbujas, Abejandra... Pasen a conocer a los nuevos superhéroes, un grupo de paladines de la justicia cuyos sorprendentes poderes les permitirán rivalizar con los grandes personajes de los cómics y las películas. Todos ellos hacen su aparición por primera vez para mostrarnos sus hazañas y sus enfrentamientos con los más terribles villanos. Algunos son chicos y chicas comunes y corrientes que, un buen día, descubren su verdadera condición. Otros son individuos colocados ante situaciones extremas y peligrosas que los obligan a realizar actos sorprendentes.

Somos héroes

„Dintre toate locurile casei bucataria era inima ce o facea sa palpite transformand o cladire inerta intr-o fiinta vie. Mai mult decat o simpla locuinta Casa Albastra era sanctuarul refugiul si altarul stapanei sale. Casa Albastra era Frida. In ea strangea amintiri ale trecerii sale prin viata. Era un loc unde convietuiau fara probleme portretele lui Lenin Stalin Mao Zedong cu catapetesme rustice ale Fecioarei de Guadalupe.“ Acolo vor intra in timp Diego Rivera Trotki Hemingway Dalí Henry Miller. Acolo se vor trai iubirile acolo se va infrunta moartea acolo se va desena povestea... Cartea Plantei de Menta un carnetel negru s-a descoperit candva printre obiectele personale ale Fridei Kahlo. Era o colectie de retete culinare dupa care se pregateau ofrandele cu ocazia Zilei Mortilor. Inspirat de aceasta marturie emotionanta F.G. Haghenbeck a inceput sa reconstituie viata celebrei pictorite. Biografie si fictiune poveste si istorie Cartea secreta a Fridei Kahlo deseneaza destinul implacabil al unei artiste al unei femei al unui spirit tulburat. „Din relatari de epoca din fragmente citite in jurnalul pictoritei si crampeie de marturii Haghenbeck parca tese intr-o imagine insufletita complicata existenta a Fridei reteta cu reteta pictura cu pictura.“ Washington Independent Review of Books "

F. G. Haghenbeck

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