Very pleasant cafe, bookshop, and CD store in the heart of Condesa. I spotted Carlos Monsivais sipping coffee on a table opposite and felt very much the intellectual about town. Good selection of fiction, history, art books (in Spanish).

Nuevo León 115, in Condesa.

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Mexican (cosmopolitan) novelist, historian, journalist, essayist, lecturer, and ambassador. Fuentes portrays Mexican history, politics, and especially "people" through his short stories/novels. Some examples are: "La Región Más Transparente" (The Most Transparent Region, 1958); "Terra Nostra" (1975); "El Espejo Enterrado" (The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World, 1992); in "Nuevo Tiempo Mexicano" (A New Time For Mexico, 1994) he gives a sharp criticism on ex-president Salinas de Gortari's economic policies; "La Frontera de Cristal" (The Glass Frontier, 1995); among others.

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Novels about the Mexican capital are few and far between, but the introspective and cynical private eye in these books, Hector Belascoaran Shayne, wanders its streets with a certain charm.

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