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La region mas transparente (Spanish Edition)
La region mas transparente - Spanish Edition Author:Carlos Fuentes Fuentes's masterpiece, La region mas transparente is credited with influencing not only Fuentes' subsequent works, but also that of his contemporaries. This novel is the first grand urban novel about post-revolutionary Mexico. It is an unsparing portrayal of Mexico City's upper class. Departing from a traditional linear narrative, Fuentes constr... more »ucts his novel around a series of encounters with members of this world. Exposing the social and psychological processes of Mexico, Fuentes shows the struggle between god and devil, ancient and modern, and the price a country must pay after revolution. Description in Spanish: Una galeria de personajes de todo signo. Se entrelazan dos mundos que parecen a punto de chocar, pero no lo hacen: el de la opulencia y el de la pobreza. "Aqui nos toco, que le vamos a hacer", dicen los habitantes de ese Mexico imaginario y real. Situada en el Mexico que le toco vivir a otras generaciones, la historia es sin embargo sorprendentemente. Trasluce la aspereza de la diversidad social y cultural, la piramide del poder, las aguas sucias de la historia.« less