Carmen Boullosa

Carmen Boullosa is one of Mexico’s leading novelists, poets, and playwrights. The author of fifteen novels, her most recent English translations include Before and Texas: The Great Theft. Deep Vellum will publish Heavens on Earth in December.

The Book of Anna by Carmen Boullosa

Summer 2020
Carmen Boullosa

Minneapolis. Coffee House Press. 2020. 181 pages. IN HER SUCCINCT yet electrifying homage to Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Mexican writer Carmen Boullosa conceptualizes the contin...
Heavens on Earth by Carmen Boullosa

May 2018
Carmen Boullosa

Dallas. Deep Vellum. 2017. 384 pages. “This book is composed of three different narratives. For reasons that I do not understand, it was given to me to turn into a novel.” These words of a fictitious...
Before by Carmen Boullosa

January 2017
Carmen Boullosa

Dallas, Texas. Deep Vellum. 2016. 104 pages. It has taken twenty-seven years for Antes, Carmen Boullosa’s second novel, to reach an English audience. Published in 1989, the novel earned Boul...
Heavens on Earth (an excerpt)

November 2016
Carmen Boullosa

Tamas Galambos, Summer, 1981, oil on canvas. A detail from Galambos’s painting also appears on the cover of García Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude reprinted by Peng...
Texas by Carmen Boullosa

May 2013
Carmen Boullosa

Mexico City. Alfaguara. 2013. ISBN 9786071123688 Through the intricate plot and multitude of characters, both principal and peripheral, Carmen Boullosa’s novel Texas seems to score a direct h...