FICTION
Released: Jan. 4, 2011
"A compelling novel by one of the masters of contemporary fiction."
A novel of substance about friendship, philosophy and politics set in the "thousand-headed hydra of Mexico City" from the prolific pen of distinguished man of letters Fuentes (
The Death of Artemio Cruz, 2009, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 30, 2008
"A lesser work than such fully achieved recent fictions as The Years with Laura Diaz and The Eagle's Throne, but of real interest as a Latin American little brother to John Dos Passos's U.S.A., the book that may have inspired it."
Sixteen cleverly varied short stories, separated by mostly free-verse interludes, form a broad image of modern Mexico in the latest fiction from that country's most prominent writer (
The Eagle's Throne, 2006, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: May 16, 2006
"A nerve-grating cautionary tale, and one of his best books. "
First published in Spanish in 2002, the veteran Mexican author's ebullient revival of the epistolary novel casts a frosty eye on future (and contemporary) geopolitics.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 8, 2005
"Either way, This I Believe is full of pleasures. Whatever their setting, the most memorable of these pieces ably show why Fuentes has been so well regarded all these years."
An autumn-of-life exercise in taking stock by the renowned Mexican novelist and essayist (
Inez, 2002, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2001
""What was there between them," Fuentes's narrator asks, "that thwarted the continuation of what had been and prevented the occurrence of what never was?" If that makes sense to you, you'll probably enjoy Inez."
The power of music, and the passions aroused by the artistic impulse, are given inexplicably murky expression in this very odd, somewhat disappointing latest from Fuentes (
The Years with Laura Díaz, 2000, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: Dec. 1, 2000
"Still, a very satisfying selection—and, at $14, a tremendous bargain."
A solid collection of 39 stories covering an approximate half-century's worth of fiction variously illustrative of the conflicting principles (cited in Fuentes's prefatory essay "The Storyteller") of "immediate effect" espoused by Argentinean Julio Cortázar and "interrelated narrative constellations" as practiced by his countryman Jorge Luis Borges.
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