- Paperback: 242 pages
- Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre / Not Applicable (Oct 1 1987)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0374518130
- ISBN-13: 978-0374518134
- Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 14.2 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 295 g
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"The ability of Carlos Fuentes to fascinate, baffle and provoke puts him alongside Nabokov and Calvino as one of the mandarin magicians of literature. Of the three, he is the most adventurous. ... The ingenuity of this book is remarkable."
--This text refers to an alternate
Paperback
edition.
Book Description
Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
During a long, lingering lunch at the Automobile Club de France, the elderly Comte de Branly tells a story to a friend, unnamed until the closing pages, who is in fact the first-person narrator of the novel. Branly's story is of a family named Heredia: Hugo, a noted Mexican archaeologist, and his young son, Victor, whom Branly met in Cuernavaca and who became his house guest in Paris. There they are gradually drawn into a mysterious connection with the French Victor Heredia and his son, known as Andre. There is a hard-edged emphasis on the theme of relations between the Old World and the New, as Branly's twilit, Proustian existence is invaded and overcome by the hot, chaotic, and baroque proliferation of the Caribbean jungle.
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
During a long, lingering lunch at the Automobile Club de France, the elderly Comte de Branly tells a story to a friend, unnamed until the closing pages, who is in fact the first-person narrator of the novel. Branly's story is of a family named Heredia: Hugo, a noted Mexican archaeologist, and his young son, Victor, whom Branly met in Cuernavaca and who became his house guest in Paris. There they are gradually drawn into a mysterious connection with the French Victor Heredia and his son, known as Andre. There is a hard-edged emphasis on the theme of relations between the Old World and the New, as Branly's twilit, Proustian existence is invaded and overcome by the hot, chaotic, and baroque proliferation of the Caribbean jungle.
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