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Distant Relations - Hardcover

Fuentes, Carlos

 
9780374140823: Distant Relations
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0374140820 ISBN 13: 9780374140823
Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1982

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The Comte de Branly narrates a story about the relationships in a family named Heredia, focusing on two pairs of fathers and sons and highlighting the mutual, corrupting influences at work between the Old World and the New

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Carlos Fuentes, born in Panama in 1928, has taught at Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, and many other universities. He is the author of more than a dozen novels--including, most recently, Inez (2002) and The Years with Laura Díaz (2000)--as well as several works of nonfiction. In 1987, he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the highest honor given to a Spanish-language writer. Mr. Fuentes divides his time between Mexico City and London, and lectures frequently in the United States.


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.

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Verlag
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Erscheinungsdatum
1982
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0374140820
ISBN 13 
9780374140823
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