In a cigarette-and-Scotch-filled room in this city, nicknamed the "Cave of the Mafia," Gabriel Garcia Marquez holed himself up and wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude.
This city is the setting of a novel that starts with the line "This is going to be a horror story," narrated by a woman who holed up in a women's bathroom with a book of poems for thirteen days. A crime novel written in the "four hands" method, titled The Uncomfortable Dead is set in this city. In a cigarette-and-Scotch-filled room in this city, nicknamed the "Cave of the Mafia," Gabriel Garcia Marquez holed himself up and wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude. This city itself can be considered the main character of a novel in which the socialite Norma Laragoiti marries the banker Federico Robles, and the timeless (*) Ixca Cienfuegos acts as an outside observer. Both Roberto Bolano's Amulet and Elena Poniatowska's The Night of Tlatelolco document the violence surrounding the student protests ten days before the 1968 Summer Olympics held in this city. For 10 points, name this extremely polluted capital city, the setting of the ironically-titled Where the Air is Clear, written by native son Carlos Fuentes.
This city is the setting of a novel that starts with the line
Mexico City [or Mexico, D.F.; or Ciudad Mexico; or Mexico, Distrito Federal]