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Aura

A Novel

Author: Carlos Fuentes; Translated by Lysander Kemp

Aura

Aura

$17.00

About This Book

Felipe Montero is employed in the house of an aged widow to edit her deceased husband's memoirs. There Felipe meets her beautiful green-eyed niece, Aura. His passion for Aura and his gradual discovery...

Page Count
160
On Sale
09/01/1986

Book Details

Felipe Montero is employed in the house of an aged widow to edit her deceased husband's memoirs. There Felipe meets her beautiful green-eyed niece, Aura. His passion for Aura and his gradual discovery of the true relationship between the young woman and her aunt propel the story to its extraordinary conclusion.

Imprint Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

ISBN

9780374511715

In The News

“When you finish, you . . . have gone through a total experience, a beautiful horror story, a horrifying story of beauty, a combination of Poe, Baudelaire, and Isak Dinesen, translated so agilely by Lysander Kemp that it seems to have been written in English.” —Newsweek

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Aura

Aura

$17.00