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Dear
Reader, Be prepared for a surprise. This is not about a Mexico
you'll see on the news... read more
 
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
"Mayos 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
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Who knew that
Mexico once had a half-American prince? Or that this little boys
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. |
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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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your copy now |
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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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