Chronicle of politics in Mexico, France and Czechoslovakia

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: 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: This is a collection of four long novellas, originally published in 1981, about characters from the lowest to the highest echelons of society in Mexico City. They offer an insight into the development of Mexican society since the 1910 Revolution, tracking the rise of the new bourgeoisie and the political/social tensions and violence of the late 1960s and early '70s...read more

Product Description: Laura Diaz is a passionated character, intimately connected to many historical events. Through her story, Carlos Fuentes writes the journal of the Mexican twentieth century, supporting his novel with facts and characters that define the shape of today's Mexico...read more

Product Description: Jaime Cevallos está al final de su adolescencia; pronto deberá decidir el rumbo que tomará su vida. Por lo pronto, su percepción del mundo es que no tiene lugar definido en él. Se debate entre la moral cristiana y los impulsos fí­sicos de su ardiente juventud; entre la jerarquí­a familiar y sus ansias de independencia; entre su pequeño mundo de pueblo chico y el horizonte infinito que vislumbra; entre el pecado y la salvación...read more

Product Description: A road trip takes four people into a mental and metaphorical labyrinth that will end with an unexpected tragic ritual. The world of American myths and the key questions of the European culture converge in this ambitious and successful novel that depicts a Mexican man of this century tormented by doubts about the present, the weight of the past, and fear of the future...read more

Product Description: Siete cuentos donde los personajes encuentran situaciones insolitas que incluyen incesto, encuentros sobrenaturales, amores secretos e insospechados y adulterio en familia. Incluye obras clasicas que incluso han sido llevadas al cine, como 'Muneca reina' y 'Un alma pura...read more

Product Description: Una lluvia ácida cae sobre Makesicko City, la urbe más poblada y más contaminada. Los mecanismos de control político son implacables y la manipulación mantiene a las masas enajenadas en festejos y concursos, uno de ellos, el premio a la pareja cuyo hijo nazca en el primer minuto del 12 de octubre...read more

Product Description: “I cling desperately to my mother’s womb.” Acid rain bathes Makesicko City, the world’s most populated and polluted city. The government’s control and manipulation mechanisms are ruthless. Festivities and contests keep the masses under their spell...read more

Through this network of personal stories, Carlos Fuentes explains Mexico and America to each other and to the rest of the world. It is the story of Mexican families who send their sons north to provide for whole villages with dollars and of Mexican tycoons who exploit their own people.

Product Description: ''I want to love her to goad her into loving herself more.'' In a room that is also a house, a city, and a world, an old man, a woman and a child make up a Trinity in the ephemeral depths of an instant. Time is the true narrative space of this novel -a story that is played by transposable identities...read more

Product Description: Este libro es una suerte de autobiografía literaria y, como un diccionario, se construye con entradas temáticas ordenadas de la A a la Z. De amistad a Zurich, pasando por Buñuel, Familia, Izquierda, Jesús, Novela, Política y Sexo, esta obra es un acto de fé en los valores humanos, una bitácora de ideas y experiencias...read more

An exploration of Spanish culture in Spain and the Americas traces the social, political, and economic forces that created that culture. (view table of contents)

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