Ilan Stavans

This fresh, definitive translation of El llano en llamas—which restores two stories that were not included in the first English translation, The Burning Plain (1967, nearly 45,000 copies sold)—introduces a new generation of readers to one of Mexico’s greatest writers of the twentieth century.

In a series of lively, provocative conversations, two prominent intellectuals debate the nature of “Hispanic-ness” as it has been expressed in Hispanic civilization around the world and across the centuries.