Where the Air Is Clear

Name: Where the Air Is Clear
Author: Carlos Fuentes

by Carlos Fuentes

A surreal portrait of Mexico City depicting the lives of wealthy and marginalized classes

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Carlos Fuentes

Mexico's foremost 20th-century novelist, whose sweeping historical fiction explored Mexican identity and the legacy of the conquest. The Death of Artemio Cruz is his most celebrated work.

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The Death of Artemio CruzA dying Mexican tycoon's life is revealed through fragmented memories of ambition and corruption
Terra NostraAn epic historical novel spanning Spanish conquest to eighteenth-century Mexico and Russia
The Old GringoAn American writer in Mexico reflects on love, aging, and lost revolutionary ideals
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