C.M.
        Mayo's
        The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire (Unbridled Books, 2009)

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    T H E * L A S T *
    P R I N C E 

    O F* T H E 

    M E X I C A N * E M P I R E

    B y *C . M . M a y o

    A
    novel based on the true story

    Selected
    as Indie Bound Notable for June 2009

    Selected
    as one of Library Journal's Best Books 2009



    "Mayo's reanimation of a crucial
    period in Mexican history should satisfy history buffs and those
    in the mood for an engaging story brimming with majestic ambition.


    Publisher's
    Weekly



    "a
    swashbuckling, riotous good time, befitting the fairy-tale promise
    of the opening sentence"

    Austin
    American-Statesman



    "Mayo’s cultural insights are first-rate, and the glittering,
    doomed regime comes to life"

    Library
    Journal



    "I have read a few sweeping historical novels that have
    remain inside of me forever. Tolstoy's War and Peace is
    one of those, Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities is another,
    Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago is another, and now The
    Last Prince of the Mexican Empire is another."

    Mexico
    Connect



    "a
    stunning achievement, an inspired novel that steers clear of
    boring history lessons and instead zeroes in on the smallest
    epicenter— Principe Agustin de Iturbide y Green— to
    spiral out into a wondrous period"

    El
    Paso Times



    

      

        

        Who knew that
        Mexico once had a half-American prince? Or that this little boy’s
        future was hotly debated not just in Mexico but in Washington
        D.C. and in every court in Europe? Set in the mid-19th century
        when Maximilian von Habsburg was Emperor of Mexico, The Last
        Prince of the Mexican Empire is based on the true and never
        before completely told story about the little boy who, as in
        a fairytale, became a prince— and a pawn
        in the struggle-to-the-death over Mexico's destiny.
 
      
    


    

      

        

        A fairytale based on the
        true but never before completely told story— the work of
        seven years of travel and research in archives as far flung as
        Vienna, Washington DC, and Mexico City— it begins, as it
        must, with, "Once upon a time..." read
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        "Political ambitions, the intrigues
        of the imperial court, and the relationship between countries
        at the height of European colonization all the drive the intricate
        plot of the novel... an enjoyable and important novel, particularly
        relevant for these times."

        ****-- Literal: Latin American
        Voices
 
      
    




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    Praise
    for C.M. Mayo's Miraculous Air:

    "With elegant
    prose and an artist's eye for detail, Mayo 

    may just have written one of the best books ever 

    about Baja California. Highly recommended"

    Library
    Journal



    "Ay,
    if only I had been at C.M. Mayo's side in her rendezvous through


    Baja California... My recourse is her joyful, intellectually
    sparkling chronicle"

    Ilan
    Stavans,

    author of The Hispanic Condition



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    Praise
    for C.M. Mayo's Sky Over El Nido: 

    "some of the
    most exquisitely fashioned, perfectly 

    measured prose alive in the world today." 

    Naomi
    Shihab Nye



    "The
    haywire circuits of our whole electrically but not ethically

    connected global village stand exposed in Mayo's work. 

    Sky Over El Nido won the 1995 Flannery O'Connor Award
    for 

    Short Fiction. I am not suprised."

    David
    Toolan, S.J., Commonweal



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    Praise
    for C.M. Mayo's 

    Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion:

    "This
    delicious volume has lovingly gathered a banquet of pieces

    that reveal Mexico in all its infinite variety, its splendid

    geography, its luminous peoples. What a treat!"

    Margaret
    Sayers Peden, editor, Mexican Writers on Writing

    

    "It will open your eyes, fill you with pleasure 

    and render our perennial vecinos a little less distante." 

    Los Angeles Times Book Review



    

    
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