Destiny and Desire (Hardcover)
| Author: Carlos/ Grossman Fuentes | Translator: Edith Grossman |
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Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Inc
ISBN-10: 1400068800
ISBN-13: 9781400068807
Sku: 215408453
Publish Date: 1/4/2011
Dimensions:
(in Inches) 9.75H x 6.75L x 1.75T
Pages:
415
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| Winner of the Cervantes Prize. One of the world''s most acclaimed authors is at the height of his powers in this stunning new novel--a magnificent epic of passion, magic, and desire in modern Mexico, a rich and remarkable tapestry set in a world where free will fights with the wishes of the gods. |
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Set apart from their peers by a shared philosophical curiosity, Mexican orphans Josué and Jericó take high-power jobs after college and are exposed to a complex web of corruption that forces them to evaluate their perspectives on free will. By Mexico's National Prize in Literature-winning author of The Death of Artemio Cruz. |
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In a wide-ranging epic that pairs two impoverished Mexican orphans as spiritual "twins" then lifts them to the heights of the political-industrial pyramid, Carlos Fuentes critiques an increasingly technological view of satisfaction. Fuentes outdoes his considerable achievements as a novelist with a mass of incredible characters who fill his fictionalized Mexico with seduction, corruption, and prophecy. Told from the afterlife by one of the boys, the duo's hopeful paths get twisted by corporate and government influencers hatching fantastic plots to exploit the needy population. But the magic of flight and a promise in ancient traditions lifts DESTINY AND DESIRE from the drain of its deadly villains.
In a wide-ranging epic that pairs two impoverished Mexican orphans as spiritual "twins" then lifts them to the heights of the political-industrial pyramid, Carlos Fuentes critiques an increasingly technological view of satisfaction. Fuentes outdoes his considerable achievements as a novelist with a mass of incredible characters who fill his fictionalized Mexico with seduction, corruption, and prophecy. Told from the afterlife by one of the boys, the duo's hopeful paths get twisted by corporate and government influencers hatching fantastic plots to exploit the needy population. But the magic of flight and a promise in ancient traditions lifts DESTINY AND DESIRE from the drain of its deadly villains.
Author Bio
Edith Grossman
Edith Grossman is a noted translator of Latin American writers, including Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Alvaro Mutis. She has won various awards, including the ALTA translation award, a Fulbright fellowship, and a Woodrow Wilson fellowship.Carlos Fuentes is one of Mexico's leading writers, known for his experimental novels and his social criticism. A lawyer by training, Fuentes published his first work, a collection of surrealist short stories, in 1954. The interaction of myth and history has been an important theme in his work. Fuentes is also the author of two absurdist plays, and collections of essays on American and Mexican writing and art.
Praise
"A compelling novel by one of the masters of contemporary fiction." (starred review)
10/01/2010
"The great Fuentes' latest novel...not only reasserts the continued livelihood of magic realism long after its advent in Latin American fiction in the 1970s but also reaffirms the sheer livelihood of that wondrous characteristic when handled as provocatively as it is here."
- Brad Hopper
11/15/2010
"This grand operatic fantasia is a book that's by turns comic and cosmic; erotic and sinister; mythological, theological and scatological; darkly satirical and poetically tragic."
- Reed R. Johnson
01/09/2011
"DESTINY AND DESIRE is a novel that sprawls and circles, not exactly a parody of WAR AND PEACE, but certainly a spectral, playful revision of the idea of a novel that competes with history. It offers lavish quantities of comedy, satire, allegory, fantasy and brilliant political commentary...evokes the work of Spinoza and Machiavelli; includes ghosts, graves, murders, a voluble flying prophet and a talking severed head."
- Michael Wood
02/06/2011
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