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| "A nerve-grating cautionary tale, and one of [Fuentes'] best books," proclaimed Kirkus Reviews. "Truly a tour de force," said
Booklist. "Smashing....brilliant.... the most wickedly entertaining novel of Fuentes' career," raved The New York Times. The year is 2020 and an ailing Mexican president has banned oil exports to the U.S. and called for the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from occupied Columbia. In retaliation, American President Condoleeza Rice has shut down all of Mexico's telephone, fax and internet communications. The politically active can only communicate by writing letters, which Fuentes crafts with a keen understanding of man's motives and desires. "[Fuentes] is at the top of his storytelling mastery," raved Library Journal, "and his insights into Mexico's sad decline into global thuggery will further heighten the fascination for this book. Highly recommended."
(Sources: Random House, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews and Library Journal) |
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This I Believe: An a to Z of a Life
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| In this deeply personal book, Fuentes steps back to survey the wellsprings of art and ideology, the events that have shaped our time, and his extraordinary life and fiercest passions. Arranged alphabetically from "Amore" to "Zurich," the book takes us on an inner journey with a great writer. Along the way, we find reflections on the mixed curse and blessing of globalization; memories of a sexual initiation in Zurich; a fond tracing of a family tree heavy with poets, dreamers, and diplomats; evocations of the streets, cafes, and bedrooms of Washington, Paris, Santiago de Chile, Cambridge, Oaxaca, and New York; and a celebration of literary heroes including Balzac, Cervantes, Faulkner, Kafka, and Shakespeare. |
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Inez: A Novel
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| Inez tells the story of Gabriel Atlan-Ferrara, a symphony conductor renowned for his brio, who falls in love with Inez Rosenzweig, an opera singer. Gabriel's love blossoms from initial outrage, when Inez upsets Gabriel by singing too loudly, to survive many years and many performances. Finally, the only thing that binds the conductor to his love is a shimmering glass seal, which inspires visions of his past, his present and his future. Running parallel to this story is a tale from Inez's dreams, a poetic, elegantly spare love story from a time before recorded history: an ancient couple falls in love as their primitive race migrates across still-forming landscapes.
(from: Cahners Business Information, Inc., 2002) |
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The Old Gringo
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| Interweaving politics, history, and the mysterious death of writer Ambrose Bierce, The Old Gringo (Fuentes’ most successful book in the U.S.) is a
powerful love story set within the rebel army of Pancho Villa during the Mexican civil war of 1913.
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The Buried Mirror : Reflections on Spain and the New World
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| A companion volume to an upcoming Discovery/BBC TV series, The Buried Mirror, a passionate meditation on Hispanic cultural identity, unfolds with all the color, urgency, and perhaps inevitable superficiality of a popular documentary. Taking as his canvas no less than the entirety of Spanish and Spanish-American history, from the cave drawings at Altamira to the tortured political landscape of present-day Latin America, Fuentes builds his plea for Hispanic cultural continuity around a cluster of vigorously poetic images, largely concerned with the matter of “inclusion.”
(from: Kirkus Reviews) |
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The Death of Artemio Cruz: In a New Translation
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| Hailed as a masterpiece since its publication in 1962, The Death of Artemio Cruz is Carlos Fuentes's haunting voyage into the soul of modern Mexico. As in all his fiction, but perhaps most powerfully in this book, Fuentes is a passionate guide to the ironies of Mexican history, the burden of its past, and the anguish of its present.
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The Years with Laura Díaz: A Novel
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| A millennial novel with centennial breadth, The Years with Laura Díaz follows one woman through the 20th century in Mexico, witnessing its political upheavals, technological advances, and bitterly uneven social and artistic progress. Born on her grandfather Don Felipe's coffee plantation at Catemaco in 1898, Laura knows both the privilege of wealth and its limitations. Her parents, Leticia and Fernando, live apart, prudently waiting until Fernando can support his family in the larger town of Veracruz. While Don Felipe fights the laurel branches that continually weave their way through his delicate coffee plants, Laura watches as her gifted unmarried aunts are consumed by the forced idleness of their kind. -- Regina Marler
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Terra Nostra
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| The richness, density, and line-by-line virtuosity of Fuentes’ magnum opus, Terra Nostra (1975), makes it arguably one of the most profound novels of the century. [The book is] philosophy, a groundbreaking novel that, through its understanding of history, showed what a literature of the Americas might look like.
(from: Center for Book Culture) |
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