Everything you need to understand or teach Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
In Velvet Was the Night, Silvia Moreno-Garcia toys with conventions of noir and mystery in order to capture the political conflicts of 1970s Mexico City. The novel centers on the cat-and-mouse interplay between Maite, a dissatisfied legal secretary, and Elvis, a member of the anti-communist Hawks. Maite and Elvis each encounter a wide cast of characters in their respective attempts to locate a cache of missing photographs.
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