"México" is Pedro Palou's historical novel that covers five centuries of Mexico City's history through the lives of four families.

"México" is the most recent installment of the Mexican writer and academic Pedro Ángel Palou. This historical novel presents transcendental moments in the history of Mexico City through the lives of four families that span centuries and diverse social conditions. From the fall of Tenochtitlan to the 1985 earthquake, the author covers five centuries of the history of the Mexican capital and the fortunes and misfortunes of the societies that have formed it.

As an author, Palou has distinguished himself by bringing aspects of Mexican life from history to fiction. He has done so through influential personalities such as Porfirio Díaz, Pancho Villa, Lázaro Cárdenas, and Emiliano Zapata.

Born in Puebla, Pedro Ángel Palou is an award-winning novelist and essayist with over 30 publications. In 1991 he won the Jorge Ibargüengoitia National Prize for Literature for his novel Amores enormes. In 1997, Palou received the 1997 Latin American Essay Award Las Imágenes de América Latina for La ciudad crítica. In addition, in México he has also been awarded the Xavier Clavijero National History Prize for his work La casa del silencio (1998) and the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize for Con la muerte en los puños (2003). He is a professor in the Spanish program at Tufts University.

“(Mexico) is a more ambitious novel, but also more intimate; instead of telling the epic history of the city, we tell the story of how it is lived, suffered, dreamed of, loved, through 500 years”, Pedro Ángel Palou in El Heraldo de México, June 6, 2022.

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