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John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel is a unique and brilliant fusion of social novel and vampire legend

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Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico Kieran Egan excoriatingAt once intimate and wide ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, this is a uniquely eye opening tour of one of the great metropolises of the world, and its largest Spanish speaking city. Horizontal Vertigo: The title refers to the fear of ever impending earthquakes that led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than upward. With the perspicacity of a keenly observant flaneur, Juan Villoro wanders through