The Years with Laura Diaz - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Years with Laura Diaz write by Carlos Fuentes. This book was released on 2012-08-16. The Years with Laura Diaz available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. _____________________ 'An admirable novel'- The Times 'In this portrait of men and women swept along by great events, and determined to be on the side of the angels, Fuentes has invested the often colourless world of politics with romantic ardour' - Sunday Telegraph _____________________ An epic and heartbreaking love story that will leave no one untouched. Like Fuentes's masterpiece The Death of Artemio Cruz, the action in this novel begins in the state of Veracruz and moves to Mexico City. From 1905 to 1978, Fuentes traces the extraordinary Laura Díaz; a life filled with a multitude of witty, heartbreaking scenes and the sounds, colours, tastes and scents of Mexico. Laura grows into a politically committed artist who is also a wife and mother, a lover of great men, and a complicated and alluring heroine whose bravery prevails despite her losing a brother, son, and grandson to the darkest forces of Mexico's turbulent, often corrupt politics. Hers is a life which has helped to affect the course of history, and it is the story of a woman who has loved and understood with unflinching honesty. _____________________ 'Fuentes's affair with the fickle forces of creativity reaches a rare and poignant intensity ... a landmark book' - Scotsman
Mask Of The Nobleman
Mask Of The Nobleman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mask Of The Nobleman write by Laura Diaz De Arce. This book was released on 2022-01-04. Mask Of The Nobleman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Peytra Sike is a gifted, but frustrated sculptor. After the masked duke, Jors Ameros, is taken with her and her artwork, he commissions Peytra to carve the mantels in his castle. There, Peytra discovers a world of artistry and friendship that cloaks the secrets of the Duke. Despite his unwillingness to be seen, their difference in status, and some castle meddling, their love for each other grows each passing day. But can their love overcome her dangerous curiosity? In the vein of East of the Sun, West of the Moon, Mask Of The Nobleman is a story of fiery passion and long-kept secrets.
The Years with Laura Díaz
The Years with Laura Díaz - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Years with Laura Díaz write by Carlos Fuentes. This book was released on 2001. The Years with Laura Díaz available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sees the twentieth century through the eyes of a woman who becomes as much a part of our history as of the Mexican history she observes and helps to create.
The Years with Laura Díaz
The Years with Laura Díaz - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Years with Laura Díaz write by Carlos Fuentes. This book was released on 2002-01-05. The Years with Laura Díaz available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A radiant and epic new novel that is among the finest achievements of Mexico's greatest man of letters. The Years With Laura Diaz is Carlos Fuentes' most important novel in several decades. Like his masterpiece The Death of Artemio Cruz, the action begins in the state of Veracruz and moves to Mexico City--tracing a migration during the Revolution and its aftermath that was a feature of Mexico's demographic history and that is a significant element in Fuentes's fictional world. Now the principle figure is not Artemio Cruz (who, however, makes a brief appearance) but Fuentes's first major female protagonist, the extraordinary Laura Diaz. Carlos Fuentes's richly woven narrative tapestry-filled with a multitude of dramatic scenes both witty, amusing, and heartbreaking-shows us this wonderful creature as she grows into a politically committed artist who is also a wife and mother, a lover of great men, a complicated and alluring heroine whose brave honesty prevails despite her losing a son and grandson to the darkest forces of Mexico's repressive, corrupt regimes. In the end, Laura Diaz herself dies, after a life filled with tragedy and loss, but she is a happy woman, for she has borne witness to, and helped to affect, the course of history and has vindicated the aims and intentions of the highest art.
Inez
Inez - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inez write by Carlos Fuentes. This book was released on 2012-08-16. Inez available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. _________________________ 'Dazzling ... The translation by Margaret Sayers Paden is elegant' - New York Times Book Review 'A complex, focused novel ' - The Times 'Passionate ... a paean to music and musical genius, to romantic love and the mysterious sources of language and creativity' - Newsday _________________________ In this magical story of love and art, life and death, Carlos Fuentes entwines two narratives: one tells of the passion of orchestra conductor Gabriel Atlan-Ferrara for red-haired Mexican diva, Inez Prada; the other of the first encounter in human history between a man and a woman. Berlioz's music for The Damnation of Faust brings Atlan-Ferrara and Inez together, and continues to resound on every page of this haunting work. At the same time, the emergent love of neh-el and ah-nel - the original lovers - reminds us of the Faustian pact of love and death. The link between these two stories is a beautiful crystal seal that belongs to Atlan-Ferrara, who is obsessed by its meaning. Maybe this ancient and seductive object gives its bearer the ability to read unknown languages and hear music of impossible beauty...
