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This inspired novel is narrated by the as yet unborn first child to be born on October 12, 1992, the five hundredth anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America; his conception and birth bracket the novel. A playfully savage masterpiece.
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"In Christopher Unborn, Carlos Fuentes has imagined the worst for his country's near future, but he's done it with such humor, verve, invention, erudition and baroque whirligig plotting that the result is a vital, hopeful book, a great salvage operation in the trash heaps of Western culture, Spanish literature and Mexican history."
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Carlos Fuentes (1928-2012) was one of the most influential and celebrated voices in Latin American literature. He was the author of 24 novels, including Aura, The Death of Artemio Cruz, The Old Gringo and Terra Nostra, and also wrote numerous plays, short stories, and essays. He received the 1987 Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's highest literary honor.
Fuentes was born in Panama City, the son of Mexican parents, and moved to Mexico as a teenager. He served as an ambassador to England and France, and taught at universities including Harvard, Princeton, Brown and Columbia. He died in Mexico City in 2012.
Fuentes was born in Panama City, the son of Mexican parents, and moved to Mexico as a teenager. He served as an ambassador to England and France, and taught at universities including Harvard, Princeton, Brown and Columbia. He died in Mexico City in 2012.
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- PublisherAndre Deutsch Ltd
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0233980164
- ISBN 13 9780233980164
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- Number of pages544
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Name on front endpaper. This inspired novel, Christopher Unborn, is narrated by the as yet unborn first child to be born on October 12, 1992, the five hundredth anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America; his conception and birth bracket the novel. A playfully savage masterpiece by Carlos Fuentes. Seller Inventory # 7941357
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition. Translated from the Spanish by Alfred MacAdam and the author. ***Near fine in tan boards with gilt titles to spine. No inscriptions. Spine tight. ***In a near fine colour illustrated dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing original publisher's price of £13.95 net. Edges of dustwrapper slightly rubbed and creased. Front and rear panels and spine of dustwrapper bright. ***236mm x 164mm. 531 pages ***Not even Tolstoy's War and Peace took on a subject so vast: although Mexico in all its vivid particularity is where the story of Christopher Unborn takes place, what that story is about is not Mexico but mankind: are we going to survive? Indeed, do we deserve to? ***The framework: attempting to appease a desperate populace by keeping it amused, the Mexican government of 1992 force-feeds it with "media events", one of them a huge prize offered for the first baby to be born on the anniversary of Christoper Columbus's landfall in the New World. Making a bid for this prize, Christopher's father Angel begets him on his mother Angeles exactly nine months before the anniversary. It is the foetus who then tells us what happens during these months, with a blend of astounded innocence and the deep genetic wisdom which becomes available to him in the womb.' (Quote from inside front of dustwrapper blurb). ***First impression of the first UK edition, in its original dustwrapper, in very nice, bright, collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # 3187x
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