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(0)Carlos Fuentes
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The nine stories comprising The Crystal Frontier, a brilliant work of fiction from Carlos Fuentes, all concern people who in one way or another have had something to do with, or still are part of, the family of one Leonardo Barroso, a powerful oligarch of northern Mexico with manifold connections to the United States.
2) Inez
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English
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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...
3) Burnt water
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English
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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.
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399 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
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English
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In his introduction to this passionate history of Spain and the Spanish-speaking peoples of the Americas, Carlos Fuentes asks the necessary question: What do we really have to celebrate on the five hundredth anniversary of Columbus's historic voyage to the New World? After all, the quincentennial of the "discovery of America" finds the Latin American republics in a state of deep crisis, with inflation, unemployment, and excessive foreign debt threatening...
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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...
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415 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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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.
9) Adán en Edén
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Edad del tiempo.Tiempo político volume t. 4
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177 pages ; 24 cm.
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Español
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Comic novel that deals head-on with many of the gravest issues of 21st-century Mexico. Key to its hilarity is the idiosyncratic, self-absorbed voice of the narrator, an ambitious attorney who made his place in the public sphere by marrying the flatulent daughter of a biscuit magnate. When his wife, a woman prone to bizarre non sequiturs, begins a romance with a loutish official who oversees a barbaric and fraudulent government crackdown on crime,...
10) Cumpleaños
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102 pages ; 23 cm
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Español
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Un cuarto que es tambien una casa, una ciudad, un mundo. Alli, un viejo, una mujer y un nino forman una Trinidad en las profundidades de un instante. El tiempo es el verdadero espacio narrativo de esta novela; su relato no fue, es ni sera, ya que esta siendo encarnado en identidades canjeables, porque la continuidad es la resurreccion.
11) Gringo viejo
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229 pages ; 24 cm.
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En 1913, el escritor norteamericano Ambrose Bierce se despidió de sus amigos con una carta en la que se declaraba viejo y cansado. Quería morir y elegir cómo. La enfermedad y el accidente le parecían indignos; en cambio, ser ajusticiado ante un paredón mexicano-- En el mes de noviembre cruzó la frontera hacia México, que estaba en plena revolución, y no se volvió a saber de él. La Enciclopedia Británica aventura que pudo ser asesinado en...
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191 pages ; 24 cm
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Español
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Aquiles o El guerrillero y el asesino, la novela inédita de Carlos Fuentes, es un relato personal, fascinante y revelador sobre un episodio controvertido de la historia contemporánea de Colombia. Basándose en la biografía de Carlos Pizarro, uno de los jefes del movimiento guerrillero M-19, el autor dio forma en esta novela a un personaje carismático, lleno de luces y de sombras. Un Aquiles que, como los protagonistas de los poemas homéricos,...
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296 pages ; 24 cm
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Español
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Desde su balcon en el Hotel Metropol, Federico Nietzsche, que regresa a una edad moderna con sus viejas dudas y culpas, interroga a Federico Nietzsche en el otro balcon. Carlos Fuentes, desde el suyo, interroga a Carlos Fuentes que se asoma al otro. Entre ambos hay espejos que los reflejan y reflejan a las edades. Carlos Nietzsche y Federico Fuentes conversan sobre el poder, el amor y la justicia mientras van dando entrada a estrafalarios y paradigmaticos...
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273 pages ; 19 cm.
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Español
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This novel portrays Carlos Fuentes best; it is aggressive, sharp, and powerful. With penetrating humor and frank narrative, the nine stories (in this novel) depict the rift that has occurred between the U.S. and Mexico in the last two hundred years. But Fuentes also gives us an insight into the force of Mexican life and culture, and how it has been able to survive in spite of the injustice and corruption in Mexico that have caused so many to seek...