Description
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.
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 09/01/1986
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.50w x 0.43d
ISBN13: 9780374511715
ISBN10: 0374511713
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Magical Realism
- Fiction | World Literature | Mexico
About the Author
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 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.