Laura Esquivels Pierced By The Sun revolves around a female law enforcement officer struggling with addiction in Mexico City. Photo: Dinzeyu Li/Unsplash.com
Mexican author Laura Esquivel is best known for her gastronomic delight of a novel, Like Water For Chocolate (English translation 1992), set at the turn of the 20th century Mexico. Her follow-up novels, The Law Of Love (translation 1996), Swift As Desire (translation 2002) and Malinche (translation 2008) – are set in contemporary, post-war and prehistoric Mexico, respectively.
It comes as no surprise, then, that her fifth offering, Pierced By The Sun (translation July 2016), is set in modern day Mexico, against the backdrop of drug and human trafficking, drug lords and crooked politicians, and rampant government corruption.
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