San Miguel Allende Books Into the Heart of Mexico 深入墨西哥腹地: 外籍人士發現自己走在人跡罕至的地方

“I am all of my characters, but none of them in particular. I'm an expat in San Miguel de Allende, the community I write about.My characters are never black and white--I'm interested in shades of gray and the way people rationalize the bad acts they commit.” — John Scherber

 

For those who are thinking to retire in Mexico, the expatriate colonies in San Miguel de Allende and Lake Chapala are well known. For many Americans and Canadians coming south of the border to simply live or start a business abroad, the ability to tread a well-worn path is reassuring. But what if you're looking for an experience of Mexico undiluted by the presence of so many foreigners? 

 

Effectively, the city as it exists today has no past, so it's not a stretch to think that as enticing as they are in January, Cancun and some of the other recent beach developments don't represent the real México, which is layered with history. For North Americans thinking about moving to another culture, another country, and immersing themselves in a different language, the support of a community of their own people seems vital. The character of their lifestyle went well beyond doing without peanut butter and chocolate chips. And because they are necessarily more connected one on one among the local people, the experience is often accompanied by a more distinctive sense of place, one that they do not dominate through their numbers, and place is one of the principal characters driving this story.

 

Casting about for a place to begin, I settled on a unique town about an hour from San Miguel. When I was painting, I was always fascinated by the melancholy air of ghost towns. Usually their growth had been fueled by nearby mines, and when the ore ran out the life of the town ebbed away. This was nearly the case with our distant neighbor, a town, once a vibrant city, named Pozos, in the state of Guanajuato. It's an out-of-the-way place cradled in the mountains deep in the heart of México...

 

Americans and Canadians do not readily think of themselves as emigrants. After all, we came from the tens of millions of Europeans and Asians and Africans that arrived on our shores as a destination, mostly willing and eager, except those who were marched ashore in chains, so it must be the proper place to be. This book reveals the stories of people who have moved to Mexico to retire or to work in places that have only small or hardly any support communities; in one case a place that is nearly a ghost town. Is this a different kind of expat? Does it require more independence of mind or only better Spanish? Find out here in their own words as you follow these conversations around the less well-traveled roads of Mexico off the beaten path.

 

Features

• Edition : -
• Binding : paperback
• ISBN : 9780983258292
• Publication Date : 2013/12/12

 

Materials & Care

• Imported