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Translated by Ethan Shaskan Bumas, Alejandro Branger
Carlos FuentesThe author of more than a dozen novels and story collections, Carlos Fuentes is Mexico's most celebrated novelist and critic. He has received numerous honors and awards throughout his lifetime, including the Miguel de Cervantes Prize and the Latin Literary Prize. Included among his books are Terra Nostra, Where the Air Is Clear, and Distant Relations, all of which are available from Dalkey Archive Press. 
Adam in Eden 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.
Distant Relations Distant Relations begins in the elegant Automobile Club de France as an elderly Count tells a story to the unnamed narrator. But the book does not remain here in the café, nor even in France. Instead, as the Count speaks, the story moves across...
Christopher Unborn Conceived exactly nine months before the five-hundredth anniversary of Columbus's discovery of the New World, the narrator of Christopher Unborn spends the novel waiting to be born. But what kind of world will he be delivered into?
Where the Air Is Clear Where the Air Is Clear, Carlos Fuentes's first novel, is an unsparing portrayal of Mexico City's upper class. Departing from a traditional linear narrative, Fuentes constructs his novel around a series of encounters with members of this world...
Terra Nostra One of the great masterpieces of modern Latin American fiction, Terra Nostra is 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...
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