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Adán en Edén combina el drama y la comedia, la ficción y la crónica periodística, el terror y el humor, lo real y lo fantástico para trazar un mapa detallado del poder, el narcotráfico y la violencia en la América del siglo XXI. Adán Gorozpe ha pasado de pobretón estudiante a poderoso mandamás gracias a un afortunado braguetazo. Adán Góngora es ministro a cargo de la seguridad nacional y ha puesto en marcha una estrategia espeluznante:...

Winner of the Cervantes Prize. One of the world's most acclaimed authors is at the height of his powers in this stunning new novel--a magnificent epic of passion, magic, and desire in modern Mexico, a rich and remarkable tapestry set in a world where free will fights with the wishes of the gods.

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Fuentes gives readers a richly painted portrait of the 20th century as seen through the eyes of Laura Daz--a woman who becomes a part of the Mexican history she observes and helps to create.

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...

Where the Air Is Clear, Carlos Fuentes's first novel, is an unsparing portrayal of Mexico City's 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 in the Mexican Revolution, and Norma Larragoiti, a social climber striving to erase her hum...

In "Myself with Others, " Fuentes has assembled essays reflecting three of the great elements of his work: autobiography, love of literature, and politics. They include his reflections on his beginning as a writer, his celebrated Harvard University commencement address, and his trenchant examinations of Cervantes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Borges.

No one who is interested in Mexico, its past and its future, can afford to miss this brilliant book."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

The Good Conscience" is Carlos Fuentes's second novel. The scene is Guanajuato, a provincial capital in Central Mexico, once one of the world's richest mining centers. The Ceballos family has been reinstated to power, and adolescent Jaime Ceballos, its only heir, is torn between the practical reality of his family's life and the idealism of his youth and his Catholic education. His father is a good man but weak, his uncle is powerful, yet his ...

Two narratives twine through this superb novel. One introduces Gabriel Atlan-Ferrara, a fabled orchestral conductor, and his great passion, Inez Prada, a red-haired Mexican diva, the other is a mysterious telling of the first encounter in human history between a man and a woman.