The False Years
By Mexican novelist Josefina VicensTranslated by Peter G. Earle
ISBN: 0-935480-40-4
Price: $12.00
Pages: 96
"... a poetic, succinct novel that criticizes the
corruption of the Mexican political system, criticizes the
negative effects of social and family traditions and offers
the reader a balanced inside view of Mexican contemporary
life."
--Los Angeles Times
"Vicens... uses the primal father-son relationship to create an allegorical work haunted by questions of individual mortality and political conflict." --Publishers Weekly
"In The False Years, the dislocations, the
strange blending of personality, the overwhelming presence
of ghosts all create a magical fictional environment, one
that illuminates Luis's most tortured question: 'Do you know
what it is to remain at the edge of yourself,' he asks his
father's shade, 'just looking at yourself?'"
--New York Times