Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico

by Juan Villoro

Book Overview

At once intimate and wide-ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, this is a uniquely eye-opening tour of one of the great metropolises of the world, and its largest Spanish-speaking city.

Horizontal Vertigo: The title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes that led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than upward. With the perspicacity of a keenly observant fl neur,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1524748889
• ISBN13: 9781524748883
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"