| | |  Entertainment | Books | July 2008 
¡Ya Llegó!
 David Lida - davidlida.com
When I came to Mexico City in 1990, with limited knowledge of Spanish, I knew that I wanted to learn to the language well, and to be able to read anything from Don Quijote to One Hundred Years of Solitude in the original.
But I never dreamed I would one day write in Spanish, let alone that a prestigious publishing house like Sexto Piso would consider my work worthy of a book. But here it is.
Las llaves de la ciudad is a collection of pieces I wrote about Mexico City in the last few years, published in various magazines and newspapers here.
The great majority of them are portraits of people: the proprietor of the first and only boutique in the world that sells nothing but bulletproof clothing; Alín, a deaf-mute transvestite who has invented her own sign language and sells her company in a beer joint; Viviana Corcuera, who was Miss Argentina in 1964, and for close to 40 years has been Mexico City’s most notorious socialite.
Each of these people is a stone in what, in the book’s totality, becomes a mosaic of Mexico City.
For the moment it is only available in Mexico, at most major bookstores or if you click here. It will shortly be obtainable on Amazon. |
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