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Series
Punto de lectura volume 8/6
Physical Desc
423 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Interconnected narratives about very different branches of contemporary Mexican society.
2) Adam in Eden
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Series
Language
English
Formats
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.
3) Adán en Edén
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Series
Edad del tiempo.Tiempo político volume t. 4
Physical Desc
177 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
Español
Description
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,...
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Series
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
Español
Description
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...
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415 pages ; 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.
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Physical Desc
lxvii, 677 pages ; 21 cm
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Español
Description
"Una galeria de personajes de todo signo. Se entrelazan dos mundos que parecen a punto de chocar, pero no lo hacen: el de la opulencia y el de la pobreza. "Aqui nos toco, que le vamos a hacer", dicen los habitantes de ese Mexico imaginario y real. Situada en el Mexico que le toco vivir a otras generaciones, la historia es sin embargo sorprendentemente. Trasluce la aspereza de la diversidad social y cultural, la piramide del poder, las aguas sucias...
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