Survivors in Mexico Rebecca West, Bernard Schweizer

Rebecca West's never-before-published 'Survivors in Mexico' brings to readers a work by a major 20thh-century author. An exhilarating exploration of Mexican history, religion, art and culture, it explores the inner lives of figures ranging from Corres and Montezuma to Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Leon Trotsky.

Rebecca West (1892-1983) wrote prolifically through most of the twentieth century. She is best known for her travel memoir/historical meditation on Yugoslavia, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. Bernard Schweizer is assistant professor of English at Long Island University (Brooklyn).

"consistendy fascinating" - Ruth Fainlight, Independent on Sunday; "Mexico's bloody history is re-told with West's incomparable, sardonic novelist's skill... a fine book about a wonderful but impossible country." - Tom Rosenthal, Daily Mail; "[A] marvellous book... full of good sense, amazing stories, pungent political comment and excellent jokes." - Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Sunday Times; "Witty and entertaining, substantive and reflective, insightful and well documented, in splendid and uncommon prose, Rebecca West's travelogue... is a model of British sophistication and knack for seeing the other." - Jorge G. Castaneda, New York Times Book Review"