NMLP P-004115 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-04

The Old Gringo

Carlos Fuentes (trans. Margaret Sayers Peden & the author) · Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York · 1985

A translation of 'Gringo viejo'; the novel is built around the disappearance of the American writer Ambrose Bierce during the Mexican Revolution, and was noted as the first novel by a Mexican author to become a US bestseller

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-004115 for "The Old Gringo" by Carlos Fuentes (trans. Margaret Sayers Peden & the author) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-004115, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).