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1) Terra nostra
Author
Language
English
Description
Chronological time is abolished and space concentrated into one area in a multi-dimensional pageant of Spanish history and culture that touches upon a facets of human experience.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
229 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the five novellas that comprise The Orange Tree, Carlos Fuentes continues the passionate and imaginative reconstruction of past and present history that has distinguished Terra Nostra and The Campaign. From the story of Columbus's arrival in the Caribbean, to the fate of Hernan Cortes's two sons, to the destruction of the Spanish city of Numantia by the Romans and the annihilation of Hollywood by Acapulco, Fuentues couples the epic grandeur of...
6) Vlad
Author
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
122 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
After centuries of war and blood shortages in Eastern Europe, an undead Vlad the Impaler moves to Mexico and offers eternal life to the only child of Yves and Asunción Navarro in exchange for their legal and real estate services.
7) Adam in Eden
Author
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
201 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A respected Mexican businessman finds his idyllic life crumbling in the face of his wife's infidelity with a corrupt director of national security, his brother-in-law's worship of a child preacher, and his mistress' break with reality.
9) Inez
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
150 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A magical short novel that weaves together two stories, two couples, two different times, and two grand passions
In one of the narratives that comprise this superb new novel from Carlos Fuentes, we are introduced to Gabriel Atlan-Ferrara, a fabled orchestral conductor, and his great love Inez Prada, a renowned singer. In the other, Fuentes memorably delineates the very first encounter in human history between a man and a woman. In one, the intense...
10) The campaign
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An inflamed revolutionary democrat and the son of a wealthy Argentine ranch owner, Baltasar Bustos, kidnaps the child of the Marquise de Cabra in 19th century South America.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
1980
Physical Desc
231 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Burnt Water by Carlos Fuentes, the rich and the poor, the noble and the brutish, and street kids and aesthetes find themselves portrayed in twelve short stories examining the life of Mexico City.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
399 pages : illustrations (some color), genealogical tables ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A unique history of the social, political, and economic forces that created the remarkable culture that stretches from the mysterious cave drawings at Altamira to the explosive graffiti on the walls of East Los Angeles.
14) The old gringo
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
©1985
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
199 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Set during the Mexican Revolution, a frustrated spinster, a retired journalist, and a fiery young general are inexplicably drawn together as they face love, death and war.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
415 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The severed head of Josuãe Nadal, floating in the Pacific Ocean off the shore of Mexico, remembers his life, his friends, enemies, and lovers, and his involvement in the drug trade and the corruption frequently encountered in his country.
17) Aura
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1975.
Edition
1st bilingual ed.
Physical Desc
145 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Felipe Montero is employed in the house of an aged widow to edit her deceased husband's memoirs. There Felipe meets her beautiful green-eyed niece, Aura. His passion for Aura and his gradual discovery of the true relationship between the young woman and her aunt propel the story to its extraordinary conclusion.
Felipe Montero se emplea en la casa de una viuda de edad para editar las memorias de su difunto marido. Hay Felipe cumple con su hermosa...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st Dalkey Archive ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 373 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Where the Air is Clear, Carlos Fuentes's first novel, opens with a metaphorical description of Mexico City and the challenges facing its inhabitants and quickly becomes an unsparing portrayal of the upper class. Departing from a traditional linear narrative, Fuentes constructs his novel around a series of encounters with members of this world, including Federico Robles, an ambitious self-made millionaire; Rodrigo Pola, a writer whose father was executed...
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xx, 380 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories, Julio Ortega and Carlos Fuentes present the most compelling short fiction from Mexico to Chile. Surreal, poetic, naturalistic, urbane, peasant-born: All styles intersect and play, often within a single piece. There is "The Handsomest Drown Man in the World," the García Márquez fable of a village overcome by the power of human beauty; "The Aleph," Borges' classic tale of a man who discovers, in a colleague's...
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