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La frontera de cristal: Una novela en nueve cuentos (Spanish Edition) [Paperback]

Carlos Fuentes (Author), Anne Messitte (Editor)
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September 1996
Nine interconnected short stories about life in Mexico and the U.S. explores the significance and role of borders in a collection that includes the title story about a Mexican laborer-for-hire, who comes to New York, takes a job as a window washer, and encounters a different world behind the glass he washes. Reprint.

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Through vividly written prose in nine short stories, Fuentes skillfully draws seemingly real composites of Mexican and American personalities on both sides of the Mexico/U.S. border. Fuentes's profound understanding of Mexico/ U.S. history, culture, and human aspirations makes his characterizations plausible. Recommended for public and academic libraries.
Rafael M. Gonzalez
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Text: Spanish --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 296 pages
  • Publisher: Alfaguara; Vintage Espanol edition (September 1996)
  • Language: Spanish
  • ISBN-10: 0679772960
  • ISBN-13: 978-0679772965
  • Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,292,821 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Impressive novel about of USA-Mexico present relations, January 7, 1997
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This review is from: La frontera de cristal: Una novela en nueve cuentos (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)
In times of NAFTA, the relations between Mexico and USA are very unstables: indocummented migration, racialism, intercultural commnuciation, etc. are topics very importants for them, and they're shaped in Carlos Fuentes' La frontera de cristal. This novelist, maybe most important of today's Maxico and Latin America, give us a nine shortstories of love, immagination, and hope about of possible mexicans and gringos cohabitation in north and south of Rio Grande/rio Bravo for to go through the crystal frontier.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Para el lector que siente ser mexicano en conflicto...?, September 29, 1998
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This review is from: La frontera de cristal: Una novela en nueve cuentos (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)
Al haber leído este libro hace un año y seguir pensando en cada uno de esos cuentos es para mí algo extraordinario. Este libro fue mi introducción a la literatura de Carlos Fuentes, quien es uno de los escritores mexicanos que se merece el elogio que ha recibido durante todos estos años. El hecho de que es un intelectual y escritor en cierta forma exige que nos entregue un producto que no nos falle. Esto ha sido logrado en "La Frontera de Cristal." El "conflicto" que todos los mexicanos padecemos debido a nuestra situación migratoria entre México y Estados Unidos ha sido capturado dentro de las páginas de este libro. Cada relato exige del lector entender cada personaje, su personalidad y su deseo de superación, a pesar del conflicto que se mantiene dentro de nuestra sociedad (por ejemplo, el anciano en la silla de ruedas..."Soy yo.").

No cabe duda que Carlos Fuentes entiende todo esto y más. Y es que un escritor que puede mantener una cierta intimidad con su lector entiende el sufrimiento, la superación personal y la lucha interna del ser humano.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Para entender las relaciones culturales Mexico-EEUU, July 8, 2002
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Un libro muy ingenioso. Los nueve cuentos tratan diferentes aspectos de la relacion de los inmigrantes mexicanos con "el pais de las oportunidades". Recomiendo este libro por realista, entretenido y sobre todo, porque esta excelentemente bien escrito.
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