Books like Signs Preceding the End of the World
Makina, who works the switchboard in a small Mexican town, crosses the border to bring her brother home, carrying a message from her mother and a package from the local crime bosses.
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Infinite Country
Talia, fifteen, escapes from a reform school in the Colombian mountains to make the flight to New York that will reunite her with the family she was separated from as a baby.
American Dirt
When a cartel massacres her family at a quinceañera in Acapulco, bookstore owner Lydia Quixano Pérez flees north with her eight-year-old son Luca, riding the tops of freight trains towards the American border with the cartel's eyes everywhere.
All the Pretty Horses
A young Texan rides into 1940s Mexico to work on a ranch, and the violence and beauty of the borderlands reshape everything he believes about honour and love.
Amulet
Hiding in a university bathroom when the army storms the campus in 1968, an Uruguayan poet in Mexico City remembers the young poets she mothered and begins to see their futures.
Exit West
In a city swollen by refugees and sliding into civil war, Nadia and Saeed fall in love, and hear rumours of doors that lead out of the country to somewhere else.
Tropic of Orange
When an orange carrying the Tropic of Cancer travels north from Mexico, it drags the line and the hemisphere with it, and seven people in Los Angeles, from a news producer to a homeless man conducting traffic from a freeway overpass, are caught up as the map shifts.
Pedro Páramo
Juan Preciado goes to the village of Comala to find the father he never knew, Pedro Páramo, and finds a town full of murmuring voices, where the living and the dead are hard to tell apart.
Augustown
On the day in 1982 when a teacher cuts off six-year-old Kaia's dreadlocks, his great-aunt Ma Taffy remembers the day in 1920 when a preacher was supposed to fly over Augustown in Kingston.
2666
Five linked parts circle Santa Teresa, a city in the Mexican desert where hundreds of women are being murdered, and a reclusive German novelist whom four European critics are searching for.
Man Tiger
Margio, a young man in a seaside village in Java, kills a man, and the village tries to understand why, and whether it was the white tiger that lives inside him.
Telephone
A paleobiologist whose daughter is slowly losing her mind to a rare disease finds a plea for help sewn into a jacket he bought online and drives into the desert to answer it.
The Lost Steps
A New York musicologist travels up the Orinoco looking for primitive instruments and finds a village that has unlearned time, and then has to decide whether to come back.