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Martin Solares

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born

Tampico, Mexico

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male

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Fiction

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Martín Solares is a Mexican writer whose first novel, The Black Minutes, is a crime thriller that, according to a Publishers Weekly contributor, "treads a ... tightrope between police procedural and surreal fantasy."

Awards include: Premio Nacional de Cuento Efrain Huerta (the Efrain Huerta National Prize for Short Stories), 1998, for "El Planeta Cloralex"; Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Prize (shortlisted) for The Black Minutes.

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Average rating: 3.65 · 291 ratings · 72 reviews · 6 distinct works · Similar authors

	The Black Minutes by Martin Solares, Aura Estrada (Translator) 3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 201 ratings — published 2006 — 10 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Minutes 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Diario de Oaxaca: A Sketchbook Journal of Two Years in Mexico by Peter Kuper, Martin Solares (Introduction) 3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El dia que Beaumont conocio a su dolor by J.M.G. Le Clézio, Alejandro Magallanes (Illustrator), Martin Solares (Translator) 3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1985 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trazos en el espejo: 15 autorretratos fugaces by Luis Jorge Boone, Hernán Bravo Varela, Alberto Chimal (Goodreads Author) 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gabriela Leon: Sunday Walk to the Zocalo of Oaxaca by Gabriela Leon, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Martin Solares 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars