Happy Families Stories
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Verlag:Random House Publishing Group
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ePUB
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
23.09.2008
Verlag
Random House Publishing GroupSeitenzahl
352 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
510 KB
Übersetzt von
Edith Grossman
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781588368140
The internationally acclaimed author Carlos Fuentes, winner of the Cervantes Prize and the Latin Civilization Award, delivers a stunning work of fiction about family and love across an expanse of Mexican life, reminding us why he has been called a combination of Poe, Baudelaire, and Isak Dinesen (Newsweek).
In these masterly vignettes, 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 Pagan family lives 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.
In this spectacular translation, the acclaimed Edith Grossman captures the full weight of Fuentes's range. Whether writing in the language of the street or in straightforward, elegant prose, Fuentes gives us stories connected by love, including the failure of lovebetween spouses, lovers, parents and children, siblings. From the Mexican presidential palace to the novels of the poor and the vast expanse of humanity in between, Happy Families is a magnificent portrait of modern life in all its complicated beauty, as told by one of the world's most celebrated writers.
Praise for Carlos Fuentes
Winner of the Cervantes Prize
The Old Gringo
A dazzling novel that possesses the weight and resonance of myth [and] the fierce magic of a remembered dream.
The New York Times
The Death of Artemio Cruz
Remarkable in the scope of the human drama it pictures, the corrosive satire and sharp dialogue.
The New York Times Book Review
The Years with Laura Díaz
Reading this magnificent novel is like standing beneath the dome of the Sistine Chapel. . . . The breadth and enormity of this accomplishment is breathtaking.
The Denver Post
This I Believe
Engaging, offering surprising conclusions, provocations or turns of phrase . . . Put down the page-turner and dare to drink these full-bodied, red, shining words.
Los Angeles Times Book Review
The Eagle's Throne
Dazzling, razor-sharp . . . prescient . . . a feast of political insight.
The Washington Post Book World
In these masterly vignettes, 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 Pagan family lives 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.
In this spectacular translation, the acclaimed Edith Grossman captures the full weight of Fuentes's range. Whether writing in the language of the street or in straightforward, elegant prose, Fuentes gives us stories connected by love, including the failure of lovebetween spouses, lovers, parents and children, siblings. From the Mexican presidential palace to the novels of the poor and the vast expanse of humanity in between, Happy Families is a magnificent portrait of modern life in all its complicated beauty, as told by one of the world's most celebrated writers.
Praise for Carlos Fuentes
Winner of the Cervantes Prize
The Old Gringo
A dazzling novel that possesses the weight and resonance of myth [and] the fierce magic of a remembered dream.
The New York Times
The Death of Artemio Cruz
Remarkable in the scope of the human drama it pictures, the corrosive satire and sharp dialogue.
The New York Times Book Review
The Years with Laura Díaz
Reading this magnificent novel is like standing beneath the dome of the Sistine Chapel. . . . The breadth and enormity of this accomplishment is breathtaking.
The Denver Post
This I Believe
Engaging, offering surprising conclusions, provocations or turns of phrase . . . Put down the page-turner and dare to drink these full-bodied, red, shining words.
Los Angeles Times Book Review
The Eagle's Throne
Dazzling, razor-sharp . . . prescient . . . a feast of political insight.
The Washington Post Book World
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