Torment and Tequila in Belle Epoque Mexico: Four Short Works of Fiction by José López Portillo Y Rojas

Torment and Tequila in Belle Epoque Mexico presents the first English-language collection of fiction by José López Portillo y Rojas, a major Mexican writer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Featuring the acclaimed novella Nieves and three powerful short stories, this collection explores love, loss, ambition, and betrayal in turn-of-the-century Mexico.

José López Portillo y Rojas (1850-1923) was an acclaimed Mexican writer and political figure.

Terry Rugeley is an emeritus professor of history at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Epic Mexico: A History from Earliest Times and The River People in Flood Time: The Civil Wars in Tabasco, Spoiler of Empires, among other works.