Carlos Fuentes: 72 books

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,...

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...

Cuatro historias urbanas convergen en un solo destino, trazado por manos inexorables en lugares famosos o recónditos de la ciudad de México. La Ciudad de México -espacio mítico, ambiguo y luminoso- es el escenario de Agua Quemada, un sube y baja social que en la pluma de Carlos Fuentes...

A través de los ojos de Jaime Ceballos, un adolescente confundido, Carlo Fuentes expone el vicio de la sociedad mexicana de vivir de las apariencias a cualquier costo. Segunda novela de Carlos Fuentes, autor de Aura, La Silla del Águila y La muerte de Artemio Cruz. Las buenas conciencias...

¿En qué mundo vivimos? Testigos y sabios de un mundo convulso responden. Hubo un momento del otoño de 2011 en que todo parecía estallar en el mundo; comenzaba la pesadilla después del sueño, sobre todo en Europa, donde lo que antes era estable de pronto se convirtió en el escenario de...

En Adán en Edén encontramos una nueva narración que tiene mucho de ensayo sobre el México de hoy, montada sobre símbolos que se encarnan en personajes. Un poderoso empresario decide llevar adelante su propia lucha contra el tráfico de droga y los narcos, y ganarles la partida con su mismo...

One of the late Carlos Fuentes's final projects, this compendium of his criticism traces the evolution of the Latin American novel from the discovery of America to the present day. Combining historical perspective with personal and often opinionated interpretation, Fuentes gives us a tour from Machado...

Nel 1913 Ambrose Bierce, scrittore e giornalista statunitense ormai settantenne, noto per un pessimismo tanto radicale e beffardo da valergli il soprannome di Bitter, «l’amaro», scrisse agli amici parole d’addio, entrò in Messico attraversando il Rio Grande e – si dice – si unì alle truppe...

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.

In Burnt Water by Carlos Fuentes, the rich and the poor, the noble and the brutish, and street kids and aesthetes find themselves portrayed in twelve short stories examining the life of Mexico City.

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...

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...

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.

First published in 1968, Carlos Fuentes's controversial novel A Change of Skin tells the story of four persons who drive from Mexico City to Veracruz one Palm Sunday. The Driver of the car is Franz, an ex-Nazi, and with him is his young Mexican lover Isabel, the talented but failed poet Javier, and...