Where the Air Is Clear
Fuentes, Carlos / Hileman, Sam / Padilla, Ignacio 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...