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Carlos Fuentes
Author profile
born
November 11, 1928
in Panama City, Panama
died
May 15, 2012
gender
male
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Aura
   3.77 avg rating — 2,589 ratings
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published
1962
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19 editions
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The Death of Artemio Cruz
by Carlos Fuentes, Alfred Mac Adam 3.83 avg rating — 1,661 ratings
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1962
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30 editions
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The Old Gringo
by Carlos Fuentes, Margaret Sayers Peden  3.44 avg rating — 611 ratings
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published
1985
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25 editions
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Terra Nostra
by Carlos Fuentes, Margaret Sayers Peden , Milan Kundera 4.17 avg rating — 238 ratings
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published
1975
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16 editions
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Los Anos Con Laura Diaz/the Years With Laura Diaz
3.68 avg rating — 297 ratings
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published
1999
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18 editions
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La Región Más Transparente
3.88 avg rating — 269 ratings
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published
1958
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14 editions
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The Crystal Frontier
by Carlos Fuentes, Alfred J. Mac Adam 3.70 avg rating — 263 ratings
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published
1996
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12 editions
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El espejo enterrado (Taurus Bolsillo)
3.87 avg rating — 204 ratings
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published
1992
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11 editions
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The Eagle's Throne
by Carlos Fuentes, Kristina Cordero 3.52 avg rating — 211 ratings
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published
2003
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14 editions
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The Good Conscience
by Carlos Fuentes, Sam Hileman 3.46 avg rating — 173 ratings
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published
1959
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8 editions
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Polls
What is your second choice the next 12 months of book club schedule?
Independent People — Halldór Kiljan Laxness (Iceland)
Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China — Jung Chang (China)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being — Milan Kundera (Prague)
The Kite Runner — Khaled Hosseini (Afghanistan)
Snow — Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)
Cuba Diaries: An American Housewife in Havana — Isadora Tattlin (Cuba)
The Tortilla Curtain — T.C. Boyle (US/Mexico border)
Time on Ice: A Winter Voyage to Antarctica — Deborah Shapiro
Lolita — Vladimir Nabokov (Russia)
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History — Art Spiegelman (Germany)
The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses / The Crossing / Cities of the Plain — Cormac McCarthy (US/Mexico border, pick one of these)
The Bathhouse — Farnoosh Moshiri (Iran)
Chopin's Move — Jean Echenoz (Europe)
Mistress of the Elgin Marbles: A Biography of Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin — Susan Nagel (Scotland)
Telex from Cuba: A Novel — Rachel Kushner (Cuba)
A Bed of Red Flowers: In Search of My Afghanistan — Nelofer Pazira (Afghanistan)
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family — Thomas Mann (Germany)
Gulliver's Travels — Jonathan Swift (shipwreck)
Brazilian Adventure — Peter Fleming (Brazil)
And We Sold the Rain: Contemporary Fiction from Central America — Rosario Santos (Central America, short stories)
The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey — Salman Rushdie (Nicaragua)
The Inheritance of Loss — Kiran Desai (Nepal/NY)
Something about/by Gertrude Bell (Englishwoman in Arabia) — couldn't find the book but found a lot of related books!
Neither East Nor West: One Woman's Journey Through the Islamic Republic of Iran — Christiane Bird (Iran)
The Worst Journey in the World — Apsley Cherry-Garrard (Antarctica)
The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov (Russia)
Tschiffely's Ride: Southern Cross to Pole Star — Aime Tschiffely (travel/adventure)
Infidel — Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Somalia)
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier — Ishmael Beah (West Africa)
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices — Xinran Xue (short stories)
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time — Greg Mortenson (Pakistan)
Caramelo — Sandra Cisneros (Mexico)
Sweetness in the Belly — Camilla Gibb (Morocco/Ethiopia)
Wide Sargasso Sea — Jean Rhys (Carribean, Jane Eyre madwoman)
The Celestine Prophecy — James Redfield (Peru)
Paradise Reclaimed — Halldór Kiljan Laxness (Iceland)
Under the Glacier — Halldór Kiljan Laxness (Iceland)
Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse (India)
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle — Haruki Murakami (Japan)
The Tin Drum — Günter Grass (Germany)
Night — Elie Wiesel (holocaust)
Suite Française — Irene Nemirovsky (German occupation of France)
Chroniques abyssiniennes — Moses Isegawa (Uganda)
The Good Earth — Pearl S. Buck (China)
Things Fall Apart — Chinua Achebe (Africa)
Carlos Fuentes — Couldn't find the recommended book, Hopscotch, maybe something else?
Isabel Allende — I didn't catch the book title. Maya, let me know and I'll add it!
The Savage Detectives: A Novel — Roberto Bolaño (Chile)
Hearing Birds Fly: A Nomadic Year in Mongolia — Louisa Waugh (Mongolia)
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