After decades and decades of waiting, literary genius Manuel Payno’s Bandits from Rio Frio (Los Bandidos de Río Frío) has now been made available to the English speaking public for the first time ever in a translation that captures all the warmth and vitality of the original Spanish.



This coveted book has been read and shared in Mexican households for hundreds of years and should now be shared with the rest of the world.



No study of the nineteenth-century Mexican literature – and literature in general -- is complete without mention of The Bandits from Rio Frio. In the 120 some years since its first publication, it has gone through more than a dozen different printings and been loved and read by generations since. It has become a staple in Mexican bookstores and is widely read in high schools and universities, and was a treasured bookshelf addition of famous Mexicans, Leon Trotsky, Frieda Khalo and many other luminaries.



Now, Part I (of two) of this classic 19th century novel has been translated into English for the first time by respected linguist Alan Fluckey. --New translation captures all the warmth and vitality of the original Spanish version



Los Bandidos de Río Frío (The Bandits from Río Frío) by famed Mexican author Manuel Payno is a naturalistic and humorous epic tale of customs, crimes and horrors. It is equal parts adventure, a sociological study of Mexican society, melodrama, romance, mystery and travel guide, all marvelously blended under the brilliant words and intense vision of a literary scholar.



Following in the footsteps of great authors like Charles Dickens, Payno wrote the novel in monthly installments between 1889 and 1891.



The Bandits from Río Frío is a unique novel, unlike anything on the shelves today. ...