Materia Dispuesta

This second novel by Juan Villoro has been a literary and popular success throughout Latin America. "Materia dispuesta" traces the life of Mauricio Guardiola from 1957, the year of his birth and of the earthquake that demolished the Angel de la Independencia, to his adulthood, when he survives the 1985 earthquake that took the lives of thousands of Mexicans. "Materia dispuesta" is a novel that gives the reader a personal and intimate view of the challenge of coming of age in contemporary Mexico.