Where the Air Is Clear Classics and ModernismWhere the Air Is Clear, Carlos Fuentes's first novel, is an unsparing portrayal of Mexico City's upper class. Departing from a traditional linear narrative, Fuentes constructs his novel around a series of encounters with members of this world Where the Air Is Clear, Carlos Fuentes's first novel, is an unsparing portrayal of Mexico City's upper class. Departing from a traditional linear narrative, Fuentes constructs his novel around a series of
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One of the loveliest riddles of Austrian literature is finally available in English translation
and finds a solace in a motley family of wanderers all as disenfranchised as she
the women’s lives become consumed by absurd attempts to deal with Australian tax law
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His storytelling lays bare his own obsessions: food
[Novak’s] wide-open eyes must watch over both the beauty of this life and the horror of its destruction