Name: Down & Delirious in Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century (in English)
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Author: Daniel Hernández; Daniel Hernández Chambers
ISBN: 9781416577034

portada Down & Delirious in Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Daniel Hernández Chambers

Author

Daniel Hernández

Publisher

Scribner Book Company

Year

2011

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.4 x 1.9 cm

Weight

0.29 kg.

ISBN13

9781416577034

Synopsis "Down & Delirious in Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century (in English)"

MEXICO CITY, with some 20 million inhabitants, is the largest city in the Western Hemisphere. Enormous growth, raging crime, and tumultuous politics have also made it one of the most feared and misunderstood. Yet in the past decade, the city has become a hot spot for international business, fashion, and art, and a magnet for thrill-seeking expats from around the world. In 2002, Daniel Hernandez traveled to Mexico City, searching for his cultural roots. He encountered a city both chaotic and intoxicating, both underdeveloped and hypermodern. In 2007, after quitting a job, he moved back. With vivid, intimate storytelling, Hernandez visits slums populated by ex-punks; glittering, drug-fueled fashion parties; and pseudo-native rituals catering to new-age Mexicans. He takes readers into the world of youth subcultures, in a city where punk and emo stand for a whole way of life--and sometimes lead to rumbles on the streets. Surrounded by volcanoes, earthquake-prone, and shrouded in smog, the city that Hernandez lovingly chronicles is a place of astounding manifestations of danger, desire, humor, and beauty, a surreal landscape of "cosmic violence." For those who care about one of the most electrifying cities on the planet, "Down & Delirious in Mexico City is essential reading" (David Lida, author of First Stop in the New World).

Daniel Hernández Chambers

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Nació en Santa Cruz de Tenerife, en el seno de una familia hispano-británica. Trabaja en el ferrocarril de Alicante, y como autor cuenta con más de cincuenta obras publicadas. En 2012 obtuvo el Premio Leer es Vivir por la novela Un fragmento de noche en un frasco, al que siguieron el Ala Delta, en 2016, por El secreto de Enola; el Alandar, en 2017, por Miralejos; el Vila d’Ibi, en 2018, por La chica que coleccionaba sellos y el chico que esperaba un tren; y el Algar, en 2019, por Un sombrero anda suelto; el Azagal, en 2022, y el Hache, en 2023, ambos por Departamentos de Asuntos Mágicos.

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