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The Death of Artemio Cruz: A Novel (FSG Classics) by Carlos Fuentes 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 Cruz's heroic campaigns during the... Today's Bargain Price: $10.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Sex & Erotica | | |
This I Believe: An A to Z of a Life by Carlos Fuentes In this masterly, deeply personal, and provocative book, the internationally renowned Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, whose work has been called “a combination of Poe, Baudelaire, and Isak Dinesen” (Newsweek), steps back to survey the wellsprings of art and ideology, the events that have shaped our time, and his extraordinary life and... Today's Bargain Price: $5.99 Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs; All Sex & Erotica | | |
Vlad by Carlos Fuentes "Vlad" is Vlad the Impaler, of course, whose mythic cruelty was an inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula . In this sly sequel, Vlad really is undead: dispossessed after centuries of mayhem by Eastern European wars and rampant blood shortages. More than a postmodern riff on "the vampire craze," Vlad is also an anatomy of the Mexican... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Sex & Erotica | | |
Diana: The Goddess Who Hunts Alone by Carlos Fuentes On New Year's Eve in 1969, a novelist in his forties meets the beautiful movie actress Diana Soren at a party and is fascinated by her oddly elusive charm. But in this novel from Carlos Fuentes, his infatuation turns into doomed pursuit as the fleeting object of his desire spurns him, and he is forced to reconsider the foundations of... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
The Old Gringo: A Novel (FSG Classics) by Carlos Fuentes 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... Today's Bargain Price: $10.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Historical Fiction | | |
The Years with Laura Diaz: A Novel by Carlos Fuentes A radiant and epic new novel that is among the finest achievements of Mexico's greatest man of letters. The Years With Laura Diaz is Carlos Fuentes' most important novel in several decades. Like his masterpiece The Death of Artemio Cruz, the action begins in the state of Veracruz and moves to Mexico City--tracing a migration... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Historical Fiction | | |
Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes Terra Nostra is one of the great masterpieces of modern Latin American fiction. Concerned with nothing less than the history of Spain and of South America, with the Indian Gods and with Christianity, with the birth, the passion, and the death of civilizations, Fuentes's great novel is, indeed, that rare creation--the total work of... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Sex & Erotica | | |
Aura: A Novel by Carlos Fuentes This eBook edition of Carlos Fuentes' novel includes only the English translation by Lysander Kemp. The Spanish text is not included. 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... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
The Crystal Frontier: A Novel in Nine Stories by Carlos Fuentes 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. Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Categories: Unknown | | |
Happy Families: Stories by Carlos Fuentes The internationally acclaimed author Carlos Fuentes, winner of the Cervantes Prize and the Latin Civilization Award, delivers a stunning work of fiction about family and love across an expanse of Mexican life, reminding us why he has been called “a combination of Poe, Baudelaire, and Isak Dinesen” ( Newsweek ). In these masterly... Today's Bargain Price: $5.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
Where the Air Is Clear by Carlos Fuentes My name is Ixca Cienfuegos. I was born and I live in Mexico City. Which is not so grave: in Mexico City there is never tragedy but only outrage. Thus begins Carlos Fuentes's first novel, unfolding a panorama in which many people's lives depend on the fact that they live in today's Mexico City, where the air is clear and yet filled... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Categories: Unknown | | |
The Campaign: A Novel by Carlos Fuentes In The Campaign , a witty and enthralling saga of revolutionary South America, Carlos Fuentes explores the period of profound upheaval he calls" the romantic time." His hero, Baltasar Bustos, the son of a wealthy landowner, kidnaps the baby of a prominent judge, replacing it with the black baby of a prostitute. When he catches sight of... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Categories: All Historical Fiction | | |
Myself with Others: Selected Essays by Carlos Fuentes In Myself with Others , Fuentes has assembled essays reflecting three of the great elements of his work: autobiography, love of literature, and politics. They include his reflections on his beginning as a writer, his celebrated Harvard University commencement address, and his trenchant examinations of Cervantes, Gabriel Garcia... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Categories: Unknown | | |
Destiny and Desire: A Novel by Carlos Fuentes Winner of the Cervantes Prize Carlos Fuentes, one of the world’s most acclaimed authors, is at the height of his powers in this stunning new novel—a magnificent epic of passion, magic, and desire in modern Mexico, a rich and remarkable tapestry set in a world where free will fights with the wishes of the gods. Josué Nadal has lost... Today's Bargain Price: $4.99 Categories: All Sex & Erotica | | |
The Good Conscience: A Novel by Carlos Fuentes The Good Conscience is Carlos Fuentes's second novel. The scene is Guanajuato, a provincial capital in Central Mexico, once one of the world's richest mining centers. The Ceballos family has been reinstated to power, and adolescent Jaime Ceballos, its only heir, is torn between the practical reality of his family's life and the... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
The Orange Tree by Carlos Fuentes 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... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Sex & Erotica | | |
The Eagle's Throne: A Novel by Carlos Fuentes 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... Today's Bargain Price: $5.99 Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
Inez: A Novel by Carlos Fuentes 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... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
Christopher Unborn by Carlos Fuentes This inspired novel, Christopher Unborn , is narrated by the as yet unborn first child to be born on October 12, 1992, the five hundredth anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America; his conception and birth bracket the novel. A playfully savage masterpiece by Carlos Fuentes. Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
Constancia and Other Stories for Virgins by Carlos Fuentes Renowned as a novelist of unsurpassed invention, Carlos Fuentes here presents his second collection of stories to appear in English. Where his first, Burnt Water , published in 1980, had as its underlying theme Mexico City itself, Constancia and Other Stories for Virgins extends its imaginative boundaries out to Savannah, to Cadiz... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Categories: All Sex & Erotica | | |
A New Time for Mexico by Carlos Fuentes In the essays in A New Time for Mexico , Carlos Fuentes discusses the history, origins and nature of Mexico's political system and the unforeseen, tumultuous events that began in 1994 with the rebellion in Chiapas and continued with a rash of assassinations, the break between presidents Salinas and Zedillo, and continual traumas for a... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Categories: Unknown | | |
Distant Relations by Carlos Fuentes During a long, lingering lunch at the Automobile Club de France, the elderly Comte de Branly tells a story to a friend, unnamed until the closing pages, who is in fact the first-person narrator of the novel. Branly's story is of a family named Heredia: Hugo, a noted Mexican archaeologist, and his young son, Victor, whom Branly met in... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
Hydra Head by Carlos Fuentes Carlos Fuentes, Mexico's leading novelist, author of The Old Gringo , Terra Nostra and The Death of Artemio Cruz , has produced what is probably the first Third World spy thriller, an action-filled, quick-paced novel of intrigue as contemporary as a headline. The Hydra Head has a constant political reality as backdrop: the... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |