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39 |
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| Book Title |
The years with Laura Díaz |
| Author |
Fuentes, Carlos; Mac Adam, Alfred (Trans.); |
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Carlos Fuentes was born in 1928. A diplomat who served as Mexico's ambassador to France, he has received many awards for his writing. The author of more than twenty books, including The Old Gringo and Terra Nostra, he is recognized as one of the world's greatest living writers. He divides his time between Mexico City and London.
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| Subject |
Spanish literature |
| Descriptors |
Spanish fiction; Fiction; |
| Call No |
PQ7297.F793A7613 |
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Laura Diaz's life parallels the history of Mexico in the 20th century, as she witnesses the Revolution, becomes both artist and activist, and loses loved ones to political corruption. - Source: Library Thing
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"The action begins in the state of Veracruz and then moves to Mexico City, tracing a migration during the Revolution and its aftermath that is an important element in Laura Diaz's life as well as in Mexico's history. This young woman, born in 1898, grows into a devoted wife and mother, becomes the lover of great men, and, before her death in 1972, is celebrated as a politically committed artist on whom none of the poignant paradoxes of Mexican life have been lost. Significantly, her life story comes to us thanks to her Chicano great-grandson, inheritor of both her gifts and her paradoxes: the novel opens in Detroit and closes in Los Angeles with him.".
"Laura Diaz is a complicated and alluring heroine whose brave honesty and good heart prevail despite her losing a brother and a grandson to the darkest forces of Mexico's turbulent, corrupt politics, and a son to the ravages of a disease that consumes him before his greatness can be fulfilled. Yet in the end she is a happy woman, despite the tragedy and loss, for she has borne witness to and helped to affect her country's life, and she has loved and understood with unflinching honesty."--BOOK JACKET. - Source: Library Thing
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| Volume |
0 |
| Imprint |
New York: Harcourt, 2000 |
| ISBN |
0-15-600756-8 |
| Edition |
NONE |
| Language |
English |
| Total Copies |
1 |
| Issued |
0 |
| Available |
1 |
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