Author most recently of the novels The Old Gringo and Christopher Unborn, Carlos Fuentes was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the highest award bestowed on a Spanish - language writer, in 1987.
Masterfully pushing fiction to its outer limits.… These stories are bizarre, surreal, strikingly original and as entertaining as anything you will never read
– San Francisco Chronicle
Renowned as a novelist of unsurpassed invention, Carlos Fuentes has collected five novella – length stories that reveal him at the height of his powers – bold, erudite, enthralling. While Fuentes´s first story collection, Burnt Water, took as its underlying theme Mexico City itself, Constancia and Other Stories for Virgins extends its imaginative boundaries out to Savannah, Cádiz, Glasgow, Seville and Madrid, to both past and present. Mysterious, magical, these stories are concerned with the eruption of the bizarre and the uncanny in the lives of characters for whom the reader has come to care.
“Robust and full – bodied…. The stories delight in language, yet avoid self – indulgence.”
– NEWSDAY
“A visionary new work of fiction…. Fuentes opens new ways for us to glimpse the hidden, enigmatic parts of our lives and to delight in the visions we discover there.”
– PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
“Like Goya, Fuentes has a gift for savage satire as well as a horror of history´s wreckage.”
– LOS ANGELES TIMES
“The stories create their own reality, the metaphor for something whose name we have lost but which we know exists and represents a truth.”
– WASHINGTON POST
