Within These Walls
By Mexican author Luis Arturo RamosTranslated by Samuel A. Zimmerman
ISBN: 0-935480-89-7
Price: $14.00
Pages: 192
Within These Walls is Mexican author Luis Arturo Ramos's most renowned novel to date. It traces the lives of two generations of Spanish immigrants to Mexico. Crossing the sea in 1915, Gabriel Santibáñez arrives at the port of Veracruz in pursuit of wealth and glory. Many years later his nephew, Esteban Niño, makes the same journey with a group of compatriots, exiles from the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. Unfolding within the boundaries of the city, the lives of the immgrants are detailed in Ramos's remarkable prose style.
Winner of the Colima 1980 National Narrative Award for his first novel Violeta-Perú, and the Colima 1988 Latin American Narrative Award for his third novel, Este era un gato, Luis Arturo Ramos's name appears frequently beside that of Carlos Fuentes, being included as one of the most important writers in Mexico. He has served for the last thirteen years as the director of the University of Veracruz's Editorial Universitaria, one of the most important publishing houses in Mexico. He is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of Texas at El Paso.