Christopher unborn / Carlos Fuentes ; translated by Alfred MacAdam & the author.
2005
PQ7297.F793 C713 2005 (Mapit)
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Title
Christopher unborn / Carlos Fuentes ; translated by Alfred MacAdam & the author.
Author
Fuentes, Carlos.
Uniform Title
Cristb́al Nonato. English
Edition
1st. Dalkey Archive ed.
ISBN
9781564783394 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1564783391 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1564783391 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Imprint
Normal [Ill.] : Dalkey Archive Press, 2005.
Language
English
Description
xi, 531 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
PQ7297.F793 C713 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification
863/.64
Summary
Mexico, 1991: Black acid rain falls on "Makesicko City", the most polluted, most populated city in the world. Amid this apocalyptic landscape a prize is being offered to the first child born on the 500th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of America. That child is the narrator of this passionate, savage novel by one of the world's preeminent writers.
Note
Originally published: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1989.
Added Author
Mac Adam, Alfred J., 1941-
Series
Latin American literature series (Dalkey Archive Press)
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Table of Contents
I am created
The sweet fatherland
The holy family
It's a wonderful life
Festive intermezzo
Christopher in limbo
Columbus's egg
Accidents of the tribe
No man's fatherland
The discovery of America.
The sweet fatherland
The holy family
It's a wonderful life
Festive intermezzo
Christopher in limbo
Columbus's egg
Accidents of the tribe
No man's fatherland
The discovery of America.