Product Description: 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 of Eden--but there are snakes in this Eden too. For one thing, Adam's wife Priscila has fallen in love with the brash director of national security--also named Adam--who uses violence against token victims to hide the fact that he's letting drug runners, murderers, and kidnappers go free...read more

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Product Description: Esta novela es el testamento literario de Carlos Fuentes, una lección definitiva sobre lo que fue y seguirá siendo como escritor. Un autorretrato hablado donde el narrador se multiplica en sus personajes, creando la contradicción espiritual y filosófica que siempre bulló en su alma, una dialéctica que abre interrogaciones sin intentar respuestas determinantes...read more

Adam Gorozpe, a respected businessman in Mexico, has a life so perfect that he might as well be his namesake in the Garden of Eden - but there are snakes in this Eden too. For one thing, Adam's wife Priscila has fallen in love with the brash director of national security - also named Adam. Another unlikely snake is the little Boy-God who's started preaching in the street wearing a white tunic and stick-on wings, inspiring Adam's brother-in-law to give up his job to follow this junior deity and implore Adam to do the same. Even Elle, Adam's mistress, thinks the boy is important to their salvation - especially now that it seems the other Adam has put out a contract on Adam Gorozpe.

Product Description: '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. More than a postmodern riff on 'the vampire craze,' 'Vlad' is also an anatomy of the Mexican bourgeoisie, as well as our culture's ways of dealing with death...read more

Product Description: Where, Carlos Fuentes asks, is a modern-day vampire to roost? Why not Mexico City, populated by ten million blood sausages (that is, people), and a police force who won't mind a few disappearances? "Vlad" is Vlad the Impaler, of course, whose mythic cruelty was an inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula...read more

Product Description: The jailer has his jailer, and that one in turn has his own, and this endless cycle continues until eternity. You and I are the final links in a long chain of submissions. This is the order of the world, my young friend. Is there any other way out? So speaks one of the characters in this collection of short stories where Carolina Grau will amble, at times as the subtlest of presences, at times as a person, a ghost or an enigma, but always drawing a delicate halo of mystery...read more

Product Description: This book is a marvelous collection of short stories, stories to be read in bed; perhaps on those nights when sleep eludes us, on those where we want to let our dreams take flight, or, maybe on those nights when we want to love.....read more

Product Description: Adán Gorozpe es un arribista, y lo reconoce sin ambages. Su matrimonio con Priscila, codiciada heredera del poderoso empresario Celestino Holguín (mejor conocido como el Rey del Bizcocho), fue un afortunado lance que, en palabras llanas, se llama “dar el braguetazo”, y lo llevó de pobretón pasante de la carrera de Leyes a influyente abogado empresarial dueño de vidas y haciendas, aún más encumbrado que su suegro...read more

Product Description: Yankee Invasion centers on one of the most traumatic periods of Mexican history: the 1847 invasion of Mexico City by American armed forces and the ultimate loss of almost half its territory to the United States. Abelardo, who as a young man witnessed the events, narrates the novel and in its very first pages commits an act of resistance that will haunt him the rest of his life...read more

Product Description: 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 Mexican Revolution, through his relentless climb from poverty to wealth, to his uneasy death...read more

Product Description: ''Our personality is made up of many facets we have, ourselves, forgotten.'' Carlos Fuentes In this play a lady and her servant inhabit an abandoned house. Both are blind, yet each one believes that the other can see, that the other is their guardian, their guide...read more

Product Description: Un enigma del pasado y un misterio del presente se unen en un apasionante juego de trampasCon motivo del 50 aniversario de Alfaguara, este título ha sido elegido como uno de los 50 imprescindibles de la historia de la editorial.A finales del siglo XV un viejo maestro flamenco introduce en uno de sus cuadros, en forma de partida de ajedrez, la clave de un secreto que pudo cambiar la historia de Europa...read more

Product Description: Este volumen, el tercero de las Obras reunidas de Carlos fuentes, representa el mundo imaginativo y ficcional del escritor, que explora las regiones de lo misterioso, lo mítico y secreto, crea ambientes de suspenso y horror abordando temas como el laberinto entre el sueño y la realidad, el misterio del tiempo, la vejez, la trascendencia, la reencarnación, lo vampírico, lo sobrenatural, el arte y el amor...read more