Carlos Fuentes






Carlos Fuentes

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born
November 11, 1928

gender
male

place of birth
Panama City, Panama

genre
Literature & Fiction


about this author

Carlos Fuentes Macías is a Mexican writer and one of the best-known living novelists and essayists in the Spanish-speaking world. Fuentes has influenced contemporary Latin American literature, and his works have been widely translated into English and other languages.

Fuentes was born in Panama City, Panama; his parents were Mexican. Due to his father being a diplomat, during his childhood he lived in Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro, Washington, Santiago and Buenos Aires. In his adolescence, he returned to Mexico, where he lived until 1965. He was married to film star Rita Macedo from 1959 till 1973, although he was an habitual philanderer and allegedly, his affairs -- which he has claimed include film actresses such as Jeanne Moreau...more




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avg rating: 3.78 | 3,843 ratings | 390 reviews | 167 distinct works | 17 fans
Aura Aura
by Carlos Fuentes
avg rating 3.90 — 603 ratings — published 1386
21 editions
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The Death of Artemio Cruz: A N... The Death of Artemio Cruz: A Novel
by Carlos Fuentes
avg rating 3.86 — 474 ratings — published 1962
17 editions
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The Old Gringo: A Novel The Old Gringo: A Novel
by Carlos Fuentes
avg rating 3.43 — 219 ratings — published 1380
20 editions
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Los Anos Con Laura Diaz/the Ye... Los Anos Con Laura Diaz/the Years With Laura Diaz
by Carlos Fuentes
avg rating 3.68 — 91 ratings — published 1999
13 editions
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The Crystal Frontier The Crystal Frontier
by Carlos Fuentes
avg rating 3.64 — 85 ratings — published 1996
9 editions
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Terra Nostra Terra Nostra (Latin American Literature Series)
by Carlos Fuentes
avg rating 4.12 — 72 ratings — published 1975
20 editions
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El espejo enterrado El espejo enterrado
by Carlos Fuentes
avg rating 3.80 — 70 ratings — published 1992
12 editions
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The Good Conscience The Good Conscience
by Carlos Fuentes
avg rating 3.62 — 56 ratings — published 1986
2 editions
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La Region Mas Transparente La Region Mas Transparente
by Carlos Fuentes
avg rating 4.11 — 47 ratings — published 1986
5 editions
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The Eagle's Throne: A Novel The Eagle's Throne: A Novel
by Carlos Fuentes
avg rating 3.37 — 49 ratings — published 2006
5 editions
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"Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre."
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"You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die."
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What is your first choice for the next 12 months of book club schedule?

Snow — Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)
 
  2 votes, 20.0%

The Tin Drum — Günter Grass (Germany)
 
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being — Milan Kundera (Prague)
 
  1 vote, 10.0%

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle — Haruki Murakami (Japan)
 
  1 vote, 10.0%

The Inheritance of Loss — Kiran Desai (Nepal/NY)
 
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The Bathhouse — Farnoosh Moshiri (Iran)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Lolita — Vladimir Nabokov (Russia)
 
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The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov (Russia)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

The Tortilla Curtain — T.C. Boyle (US/Mexico border)
 
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The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses / The Crossing / Cities of the Plain — Cormac McCarthy (US/Mexico border, pick one of these)
 
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Chopin's Move — Jean Echenoz (Europe)
 
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Telex from Cuba: A Novel — Rachel Kushner (Cuba)
 
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A Bed of Red Flowers: In Search of My Afghanistan — Nelofer Pazira (Afghanistan)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family — Thomas Mann (Germany)
 
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Gulliver's Travels — Jonathan Swift (shipwreck)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Brazilian Adventure — Peter Fleming (Brazil)
 
  1 vote, 10.0%

And We Sold the Rain: Contemporary Fiction from Central America — Rosario Santos (Central America, short stories)
 
  1 vote, 10.0%

The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey — Salman Rushdie (Nicaragua)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Independent People — Halldór Kiljan Laxness (Iceland)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Something about/by Gertrude Bell (Englishwoman in Arabia) — couldn't find the book but found a lot of related books!
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

 
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The Worst Journey in the World — Apsley Cherry-Garrard (Antarctica)
 
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Tschiffely's Ride: Southern Cross to Pole Star — Aime Tschiffely (travel/adventure)
 
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Infidel — Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Somalia)
 
  2 votes, 20.0%

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier — Ishmael Beah (West Africa)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices — Xinran Xue (short stories)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

 
  1 vote, 10.0%

Caramelo — Sandra Cisneros (Mexico)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Sweetness in the Belly — Camilla Gibb (Morocco/Ethiopia)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Wide Sargasso Sea — Jean Rhys (Carribean, Jane Eyre madwoman)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

The Celestine Prophecy — James Redfield (Peru)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Paradise Reclaimed — Halldór Kiljan Laxness (Iceland)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Under the Glacier — Halldór Kiljan Laxness (Iceland)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse (India)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China — Jung Chang (China)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

The Kite Runner — Khaled Hosseini (Afghanistan)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Night — Elie Wiesel (holocaust)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Suite Française — Irene Nemirovsky (German occupation of France)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Chroniques abyssiniennes — Moses Isegawa (Uganda)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

The Good Earth — Pearl S. Buck (China)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

 
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Things Fall Apart — Chinua Achebe (Africa)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Carlos Fuentes — Couldn't find the recommended book, Hopscotch, maybe something else?
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Isabel Allende — I didn't catch the book title. Maya, let me know and I'll add it!
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

The Savage Detectives: A Novel — Roberto Bolaño (Chile)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Hearing Birds Fly: A Nomadic Year in Mongolia — Louisa Waugh (Mongolia)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

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