Memories of Future Times

Written in prose imbued with dazzling sensory power, Memories of Future Times marked a brilliant start to Elena Garro’s literary career.It is the people of Ixtepec who, in these pages, recount a succession of episodes in which cruelty and faith, passion and hatred, lies and treachery are intertwined, with the distinctive perspective of great works of fantasy, through a wide cast of characters from different social strata, ranging from prostitutes and peasants to long-established families and members of the clergy.Ixtepec is situated in the hot heartland of Mexico, in a place that is everywhere and nowhere, for it is the imaginary town in which Elena Garro set her portrayal of the turbulent post-revolutionary years of a Mexico where the injustice of land dispossession, racism and violence against women were, as they are today, an everyday reality.A powerful fable of the historical wounds of a country and an era, Memories of Future Times is destined, at last, to take its place as an undisputed classic of Spanish-American literature.