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Happy families

Autor: Fuentes, Carlos

Datos suplementarios: Traducción al inglés de Edith Grossman.
Lugar de edición: Londres
Editorial: Bloomsbury
Año de edición: 2008
ISBN: 9780747595281
Género:
 Narrativa - Novela - Traducción de libros individuales
Tipo de literatura: Literatura escrita
Lengua: * Obra traducida al inglés, de Todas las familias felices.

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Datos suplementarios: Traducción al inglés de Edith Grossman.
Lugar de edición: Nueva York
Editorial: Penguin Random House
Año de edición: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7843-8

The  Eagle's Throne

'Fuentes  at  his   satirical  best,  mixing  political  wisdom,  biting  wit  and  poignant  self-realisation'

Scotland  on  Sunday

'Smashing...  the  most  wickedly  entertaining  novel  of   Fuentes' career
...elegant  and  funny...  brillant'

New  York  Times

The  Eagle's Throne

'[Fuentes] writes  with  an  energy,  passion  and   humour  that  are  as  compelling  now  as  when   he  first  published a  nove,  more  than   forty  years  ago...  rattlingly  good  entertainment'

Daily  Telegraph

'México's greatest  contemporary novelist  and   political   commentator' 

The  Times

In a  culture  that  often  rewards  laziness and  celebrates  conformism,  hypocrisy  and  cynicism,  Fuentes  is  all  the  more  striking´

Tariq  Ali



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“What makes this collection a joy to read is that each tale is riveting and crucial to the Book’s tapestry as a whole….
The translation by Edith Grossman [is] a towering achievement that well serves Mr. Fuentes’s witty, ironic and often experimental play with language.”
—The Washingtom Times

In these apectacular vignettes, the internationally acclaimed author Carlos Fuentes explores Tolstoy’s classic observation that “happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” In “A family Like Any Other,” each member of the Pagán family live in isolation, despite sharing a tiny house. In “The Mariachi’s Mother,” the limitless devotion of a woman is revealed as she secretly tends to her estranged son’s wounds. “Sweethearts” reunites old lovers unexpectedly and opens up the possibilities for other lives and other loves. These are just a few of the remarkable stories in Happy Families, but they all inhabit Fuentes’s trademark Mexico, where modern obsessions bump up against those of the mythic past—and the result is a triumphant display of the many ways we reach out to one another and find salvation through irrepressible acts of love.

“Completely captivating and entertaining, with Fuentes’s superb style (exciting language that snaps with fervency) and his trademark characterizations dancing off the page.”
—Booklist

“[Fuentes has a] masterful ability to evoke the sounds, smells, sights and mythic history of his native land.”
—The Seatle Times

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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