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Books by Carlos Fuentes
  | | The Death of Artemio Cruz A Novel (FSG Classics) by Carlos Fuentes, Alfred Macadam Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2009 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53180-5, ISBN: 0-374-53180-3 "As the novel opens, Artemio Cruz, the all-powerful newspaper magnate and land baron, lies confined to his bed and, in dreamlike flashes, recalls the pivotal episodes of his life. Carlos Fuentes manipulates the ensuing kaleidoscope of images with dazzling inventiveness, layering memory upon memory, from Cruzâs heroic campaigns during the Mexican Revolution, through his relentless climb from poverty to wealth, to his uneasy death. Perha ..." |
 | | La Muerte de Artemio Cruz(Reprint) (Spanish Edition) by Carlos Fuentes Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1996 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-025582-9, ISBN: 0-14-025582-6 "After collapsing from an illness while attending a business meeting, a dying Artemio Cruz, a rich and powerful land owner in modern Mexico, is driven by conscience to recall his corrupt life." |
 | | The Old Gringo(1st Edition) A Novel (FSG Classics) by Carlos Fuentes, Margaret Sayers Peden Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2007 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53052-5, ISBN: 0-374-53052-1 "In The Old Gringo, Carlos Fuentes brings the Mexico of 1916 uncannily to life. This novel is wise book, full of toughness and humanity and is without question one of the finest works of modern Latin American fiction.One of Fuentes's greatest works, the novel tells the story of Ambrose Bierce, the American writer, soldier, and journalist, and of his last mysterious days in Mexico living among Pancho Villa's soldiers, particularly his enc ..." |
 | | A New Time for Mexico(1st Edition) by Carlos Fuentes, Marina Gutman Castaneda Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 1997 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-21183-4, ISBN: 0-520-21183-9 "See also Decentralized self-government Feinstein, Dianne, 175 Fernandez de Cevallos, Diego, 98, 100, 107, 109 Fernandez Galindo, Ignacio, 86 Fernandez Manero, Victor, 1 20 Figueroa, Gabriel, 10 Figueroa, Ruben, 169 Financial crisis ... 205, 214 Germany, 42 Globalization, 209-10 Gods of Mexico, The (Burland), 213 Gomez, Marte R., 120 Gomez Checheo, Agustina, 86 Gomez de la Gloria, Sebastian, 86 Gonzalez, Carlos Hank, 101-2 Gonzalez, ..." |
 | | Aura Bilingual Edition (English and Spanish Edition) by Carlos Fuentes, Lysander Kemp Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1986 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-51171-5, ISBN: 0-374-51171-3 "Felipe Montero is employed in the house of an aged widow to edit her deceased husband's memoirs. There Felipe meets her beautiful green-eyed niece, Aura. His passion for Aura and his gradual discovery of the true relationship between the young woman and her aunt propel the story to its extraordinary conclusion." |
 | | The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories(1st Edition) by Carlos Fuentes, Julio Ortega, Juan Rulfo, Jorge Borges, Julio Cortazar, Jose Donoso, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Juan. Onetti Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2000 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-77551-5, ISBN: 0-679-77551-X "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 Garcia Marquez fable of a village overcome by the power of human beauty; "The Aleph," Borges' classic tale of a man who discovers, ..." |
 | | The Eagle's Throne A Novel by Carlos Fuentes, Kristina Cordero Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2006 by Random House ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-6247-8, ISBN: 1-4000-6247-0 "Here is a true literary event–the long-awaited new novel by Carlos Fuentes, one of the world’s great writers. By turns a tragedy and a farce, an acidic black comedy and an indictment of modern politics, The Eagle’s Throne is a seriously entertaining and perceptive story of international intrigue, sexual deception, naked ambition, and treacherous betrayal.In the near future, at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council, Mexico’s i ..." |
 | | The Years with Laura Diaz(Reprint) by Carlos Fuentes, Alfred Macadam Paperback, 528 Pages, Published 2001 by Harvest Book ISBN-13: 978-0-15-600756-6, ISBN: 0-15-600756-8 "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 w ..." |
 | | The Buried Mirror(1st Edition) Reflections on Spain and the New World by Carlos Fuentes Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 1999 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-0-395-92499-0, ISBN: 0-395-92499-5 "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 foreig ..." |
 | | The Campaign(1st Edition) by Carlos Fuentes, Alfred Mac Adam, Ed Killian Jordan Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1992 by Harpercollins ISBN-13: 978-0-06-097502-9, ISBN: 0-06-097502-4 "Baltasar Bustos sets out across Argentina, Venezuela, Chile, Peru, and Mexico on a public and personal campaign of redemption in a novel set during Spanish America's struggle for independence. By the author of Christopher Unborn. Reprint." |
 | | Adam in Eden(1st Edition) by Carlos Fuentes, Ethan Shaskan Bumas, Alejandro Branger, E. Shaskan Bumas Hardcover, 201 Pages, Published 2012 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-796-5, ISBN: 1-56478-796-6 "In this comic novel of political intrigue, Adam Gorozpe, a respected businessman in Mexico, has a life so perfect that he might as well be his namesake in the Garden. But there are snakes in this Garden too, and in order to save his relationship, his marriage, his life, and the soul of his country, he may have to call upon the wrath of the angels to expel all these serpents from his Mexican Eden.In this comic novel of political int ..." |
 | | Distant Relations (Mexican Literature Series) by Carlos Fuentes, Margaret Sayers Peden Paperback, 225 Pages, Published 2006 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-345-5, ISBN: 1-56478-345-6 "Distant Relations begins in the elegant Automobile club de France as an elderly Count tells a story to the unnamed narrator. But the book does not remain here in the cafe, nor even in France. Instead, as the Count speaks, the story moves across time and space, from Latin America to Europe, from generation to generation. We hear of Hugo, a noted Mexican archeologist, and of his young son, Victor, who were once the Count's houseguests. He ..." |
 | | Inez(1st Edition) A Novel by Carlos Fuentes, Margaret Sayers Peden Hardcover, 150 Pages, Published 2002 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-17553-5, ISBN: 0-374-17553-5 "A magical short novel that weaves together two stories, two couples, two different times, and two grand passionsIn 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, t ..." |
 | | Christopher Unborn(1st Edition) by Carlos Fuentes Paperback, 531 Pages, Published 1990 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-73222-8, ISBN: 0-679-73222-5 "Mexico, 1991: Black acid rain falls on "Makesicko City," the most polluted, most populated city in the world. Amid this apocalyptic landscape a prize is being offered to the first child born on the 500th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of America. That child is the narrator of this passionate, savage novel by one of the world's preeminent writers." |
 | | BURNT WATER Stories ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden by Carlos Fuentes Hardcover, 231 Pages, Published 1980 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux, Ny ISBN-13: 978-0-374-11741-2, ISBN: 0-374-11741-1 "Stories Carlos Fuentes ... They were all there, all the dogs together, at a distance, but together, watching the gray dog's torture, silent, muzzles frothing, dogs of the sun, look, Rosa Maria, they're not running away, and they're not just standing ..." |
 | | Where the Air Is Clear (Mexican Literature Series) by Carlos Fuentes, Sam Hileman, Ignacio Padilla, Janice Galloway Paperback, 373 Pages, Published 2014 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-344-8, ISBN: 1-56478-344-8 "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 ..." |
 | | FSG Classics The Old Gringo : A Novel by Carlos Fuentes 208 Pages, Published 2013 by Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-1-4668-4014-0, ISBN: 1-4668-4014-5 "In The Old Gringo, Carlos Fuentes brings the Mexico of 1916 uncannily to life. This novel is wise book, full of toughness and humanity and is without question one of the finest works of modern Latin American fiction." |
 | | A New Time for Mexico by Carlos Fuentes 288 Pages, Published 2013 by A&C Black ISBN-13: 978-1-4088-4500-4, ISBN: 1-4088-4500-8 "Carlos Fuentes. and our politics, between development and democracy. The Chiapas uprising will at least serve to ... and indigenous communities met with President Carlos Salinas de Gortari in Tuxtla Gutierrez to describe the injustice of their situation. Alfonso Reyes recounts a trip to Andalusia with a Spanish philosopher who, after listening to the peasants, exclaimed, 'These ... 'Today, under current law,' said Jacobo Nazar Mora ..." |
 | | The Good Conscience A Novel by Carlos Fuentes 148 Pages, Published 2013 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-1-4668-4012-6, ISBN: 1-4668-4012-9 "Jaime's struggle to emerge as a man with a "good conscience" forms the theme of the book: can a rebel correct the evils of an established system and at the same time retain the integrity of his principles?" |
 | | Happy Families by Carlos Fuentes 352 Pages, Published 2012 by A&C Black ISBN-13: 978-1-4088-3726-9, ISBN: 1-4088-3726-9 "What isn't at all difficult for you is to abandon your son, leaving him in the care of Sagrario Algarra, be frank, Alejandro, you keep Sandokán at a distance because you don't tolerate disease in any of its forms, especially if it deforms. How could ..." |
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