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Title: HAPPY FAMILIES
By: Carlos Fuentes
Format: Electronic book text

List price: £12.99


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ISBN 10: 1408837269
ISBN 13: 9781408837269
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC (DIGITAL)
Pub. date: 16 August, 2012
Pages: 352
Description: The latest work from the grand master of Mexican fiction.
Synopsis: A choral novel on the hopes, disillusionments and betrayals of family life in Mexico. A rich Catholic rancher wants his four sons to become priests, while the boys themselves have other plans; a bereaved mother explains her daughter's life to the man who killed her; three daughters meet up around their father's coffin for the first time in ten years; a middle-aged couple meet by chance on a cruise-ship and wonder if they were once young lovers. The result is a picture of contemporary Mexico seen through a violently fragmented narrative, not unlike the internationally successful film Amores Perros.The stories are punctuated by a chorus, commenting as if in a Greek tragedy, crudely and unsentimentally on the underbelly of modern Mexican life, offering a raw but richly textured glimpse of the inequalities of that society - street children, junkies, dead rock icons, the ideal wife, a honeymoon gone wrong, a child suicide, a man faking his death and beginning a new life - that throw the middle-class dramas of the linked stories into harsh relief. Happy Families is a dramatic polyphony of the many conflicting strands of Latin America and the modern urban world.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Returns: Non-returnable
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DIANA (HB)
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DIANA THE GODDESS WHO HUNTS ALONE
DISTANT RELATIONS (PB)
EL INSTINTO DE INEZ (PB)
ELENA PONIATOWSKA (PB)
EN BONNE COMPAGNIE (PB)
EN ESTO CREO (PB)
FRAGILE DEMON (PB)
FRIDA KAHLO (HB)
GREAT LATIN AMERICAN NOVEL (PB)
HAPPY FAMILIES (PB)
HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: MEXICAN NOTEBOOKS (HB)
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INQUIETA COMPANIA (PB)
JUAN RULFO'S MEXICO (HB)
L'INSTINCT D'INEZ (PB)
LA DESDICHADA (PB)
LA FRONTERA DE CRISTAL (PB)
LA MUERTE DE ARTEMIO CRUZ (HB)
LA MUERTE DE ARTEMIO CRUZ (PB)
LA REGION MAS TRANSPARENTE (PB)
LA SILLA DEL AGUILA
LA VOLUNTAD Y LA FORTUNA
LATIN AMERICA
LATIN-AMERICAN PLAYS (PB)
LE SIEGE DE L'AIGLE (PB)
LES ANNEES AVEC LAURA DIAZ (PB)
LOS ANOS CON LAURA DIAZ
LOS ANOS CON LAURA DIAZ (PB)
LOS ANOS CON LAURA DIAZ (PB)
METODO DE ESPANOL
METODO DE ESPANOL
METODO DE ESPANOL
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NEW TIME FOR MEXICO (PB)
NIETZSCHE ON HIS BALCONY (PB)
TEMAS AND VARIACIONES (PB)
TERRA NOSTRA (HB)
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THE BURIED MIRROR (PB)
THE CAMPAIGN (HB)
THE CITY BUILDER (HB)
THE CRYSTAL FRONTIER
THE CRYSTAL FRONTIER (HB)
THE CRYSTAL FRONTIER (PB)
THE DEATH OF ARTEMIO CRUZ (HB)
THE DIARY OF FRIDA KAHLO (HB)
THE EAGLE'S THRONE
THE EAGLE'S THRONE (PB)
THE OLD GRINGO
THE ORANGE TREE (HB)
THE ORANGE TREE (PB)
THE PICADOR BOOK OF LATIN AMERICAN STORIES (PB)
THE REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY FICTION (PB)
THE YEARS WITH LAURA DIAZ
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THIS I BELIEVE
THIS I BELIEVE (HB)
THIS I BELIEVE (PB)
TODAS LAS FAMILIAS FELICES (PB)
TODAS LAS FAMILIAS FELICES (PB)
TODAS LAS FAMILIAS FELICES (PB)
VLAD (HB)
WHERE THE AIR IS CLEAR (PB)
WITNESSES OF TIME (HB)
WITNESSES OF TIME (HB)
YANKEE INVASION
YANKEE INVASION (PB)
YEARS WITH LAURA DIAZ (PB)



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