Yankee Invasion centers on one of the most traumatic periods of Mexican history, the 1847 invasion of Mexico City by American armed forces and the ultimate loss of almost half its territory to the United States. The story is narrated by a witness to events, Abelardo, who in the novel’s very first pages commits an act of resistance that will haunt him the rest of his life. In his old age he begins to recollect the history of Mexico, as well as his painful love for both his fiancée and her mother, which plays out against the backdrop of the invasion and occupation. Yankee Invasion offers vivid descriptions of the streets, cafés, cantinas, and drawing rooms of Mexico City from the mid-nineteenth century to the turn of the twentieth. Abelardo is an informative yet unreliable narrator, and author Solares successfully combines humor and pathos.

About The Author

Ignacio Solares (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, 1945) is a novelist, playwright, and essayist, as well a the editor-in-chief of the "Revista de la Universidad de Mexico" and the past director of the Divison of Literature of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He has won numerous grants and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship.