Books by Ruth L.C. Simms

“A number of writers, including Borges and other luminaries of Latin American literature, have described this as a perfect novel. And there is something perfect in its plotting. As I mentioned before, it plays an amazing trick on you. It puts you in an odd situation in which you think you’re reading something like Kafka, where you shouldn’t expect any kind of systematic explanation. And then it miraculously delivers one, which makes a bizarre sense of everything that’s come before.” Read more...

The Best Metaphysical Thrillers

Greg Jackson, Novelist

“I think it’s one of the most beautiful novels ever written. It’s a love story and also the story of Mexico, and a very specific moment in the life of the country. It is a metaphor of desolation and despair, where each element is imbued with a very subtle magic, made of voices and memories, above all women’s…It’s a work of magical realism, and was published four years ahead of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude“ Read more...

Five of the Best Classic Mexican Novels

Ave Barrera, Novelist