The Years With Laura Diaz
by Fuentes, Carlos, translation by Alfred MacAdam
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0374293414
- ISBN 13
- 9780374293413
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About This Item
The Years with Laura Diaz is Carlos Fuentes's most important novel in several decades. Like his masterpiece The Death of Artemio Cruz, the action begins in the state of Veracruz and moves to Mexico City -- tracing a migration during the Revolution and its aftermath that was a feature of Mexico's demographic history and is a significant element in Fuentes's fictional world.
Now the principal figure is not Artemio Cruz (who, however, makes a brief appearance) but Fuentes's first major female protagonist, the extraordinary Laura Diaz. Fuentes's richly woven narrative tapestry of her life from 1905 to 1978 -- filled with a multitude of witty, heartbreaking scenes and the sounds and colors, tastes and scents of Mexico -- shows us this wonderful woman as she grows into a politically committed artist who is also a wife and mother, a lover of great men, and a complicated and alluring heroine whose brave honesty prevails despite her losing a brother, son, and grandson to the darkest forces of Mexico's turbulent, often corrupt politics. In the end, Laura Diaz herself dies, after a life filled with tragedy and loss, but she is a happy woman, for she has borne witness to and helped to affect the course of history, and has loved and understood with unflinching honesty.
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- Bookseller
- Eureka Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 281060
- Title
- The Years With Laura Diaz
- Author
- Fuentes, Carlos, translation by Alfred MacAdam
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0374293414
- ISBN 13
- 9780374293413
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
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