On the Plain of Snakes

Nogales is a border town caught between Mexico and the United States of America. A forty-foot steel fence runs through its centre, separating the prosperous US side from the impoverished Mexican side. It is a fascinating site of tension as the town fills with hopeful border crossers and the deportees who have been brought back. And it is here that travel writer, Paul Theroux will begin his journey into the culturally rich but troubled heart of modern Mexico in this mesmerising exploration of a region in conflict.