This seventh installment in our beloved Very Christmas series is a celebration of the Mexican Yuletide spirit. Replete with mouthwatering Nochebuena meals, mysterious felines, multicolored boxes, marvelous sweet rolls, and many a bedside tale, A Very Mexican Christmas is sure to delight, warm, and astonish by turns. You'll find spellbindng work by some of Mexico's most important writers, contemporary favorites, as well as fresh translations of classic works.

Contents:

The Toppled Tree / Fabio Morábito -- Birth of Christ, with comment on the bee / Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz -- Christmas in the mountains / Ignacio Manuel Altamirano -- The double cat syndrome / Carmen Boullosa -- The discomfiting brother / Carlos Fuentes -- The old man / Amado Nervo -- The two Christmases / Carlos Monsiváis -- Moses and Gaspar / Amparo Dávila -- Christmas night / Amado Nervo -- Like water for Chocolate / Laura Esquivel -- The tragedy of the toy / Luis Gonzaga Urbina -- Three wise guys / Sandra Cisneros -- Carmen and Pablo, from Christmas in the mountains / Ignacio Manuel Atlamirano.