
From Mexico’s preeminent man of letters, "a Balzacian novel in nine masterly stories" (Vanity Fair) that explores the "uneven and painful meshing of two North American cultures" (Washington Post Book World). A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. Translated by Alfred Mac Adam.
©1995 Carlos Fuentes, Translation copyright 1997 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc. (P)2014 Audible, Inc.