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The Years with Laura Diaz

A Novel

Author: Carlos Fuentes Translated from Spanish by Alfred MacAdam

The Years with Laura Diaz

The Years with Laura Diaz

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A radiant and epic new novel that is among the finest achievements of Mexico's greatest man of letters.

The Years With Laura Diaz is Carlos Fuentes' most important...

Page Count
544
On Sale
04/01/2006

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A radiant and epic new novel that is among the finest achievements of Mexico's greatest man of letters.

The Years With Laura Diaz is Carlos Fuentes' 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 that is a significant element in Fuentes's fictional world.

Now the principle figure is not Artemio Cruz (who, however, makes a brief appearance) but Fuentes's first major female protagonist, the extraordinary Laura Diaz. Carlos Fuentes's richly woven narrative tapestry-filled with a multitude of dramatic scenes both witty, amusing, and heartbreaking-shows us this wonderful creature as she grows into a politically committed artist who is also a wife and mother, a lover of great men, a complicated and alluring heroine whose brave honesty prevails despite her losing a son and grandson to the darkest forces of Mexico's repressive, corrupt regimes. 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 vindicated the aims and intentions of the highest art.

Imprint Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

ISBN

9780374706425

In The News

“This novel is like a great painting, like a mural a complex mosaic of national and personal history . . . As a Mexican woman, I would like to celebrate Fuentes for choosing The Years with Laura Díaz with which to close this conflicted twentieth century. It is worthy of applause-that a man who has seen, observed, analyzed and criticized as no one else has its great occurrences, has witnessed the rise and fall of governments, the birth and death of hopes-now has a woman, Laura Díaz, speak for him.” —Laura Esquivel, Reforma

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The Years with Laura Diaz

The Years with Laura Diaz

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