A contemporary classic from awardwinning author Carmen Boullosa in the tradition of Juan Rulfo Jorge Luis Borges and Camp233eacutesar Aira now available in a special Tenth Anniversary Editionamp10Loosely based on the littleknown 1859 Mexican invasion of the United States Texas The Great Theft is a richly imagined evocation of the volatile TexMex borderland Boullosa views border history through a new lens decentering US narratives and her sympathetic portrayal of each of her wildly diverse charactersMexican ranchers and Texas Rangers Comanches and cowboys German socialists and runaway slaves Southern belles and dancehall girlsamp8212makes her storytelling tremendously powerful and absorbingamp10Featuring a new introduction by Merve Emre the Tenth Anniversary Edition of Texas sheds important historical light on current battles over the MexicanAmerican frontier while telling a gripping story with Boullosas singular prose and formal innovation
