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  <title><![CDATA[La frontera de cristal]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;From Mexico&amp;#8217;s preeminent man of letters, &amp;#8220;a Balzacian novel in nine masterly stories&amp;#8221; (Vanity Fair) that explores the &amp;#8220;uneven and painful meshing of two North american cultures&amp;#8221; (Washington Post Book World). A New York Times Notable Book of the Year.  A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. Translated by Alfred Mac Adam.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Carlos Fuentes]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm certain that Paul Haggis read this book before making his movie Crash.  The book is 9 stories with interlocking characters culture- clashing to a crashing culmination.  The Crystal Frontier being the U.S. Mexican border, all of the characters are simultaneously cartoon character exaggerated ster...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39379209">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 10 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was ordered to read this because of the fact that I am a native of Southern California. My life, and especially my childhood has been influenced by growing up so close to the San Ysidro border crossing. I lived in predominantly hispanic neighborhoods at times, ate so much Mexican food (including h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10103050">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This very well may be a five star book. However, I feel like even though I enjoyed this book immensely, Fuentes might have even better out there. I pretty much read this entire book in one today.<br/><br/>The Crystal Frontier is a series of vignettes revolving around the U.S./Mexico border that in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9409107">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I know that this is a well written book. It's won lots of awards. The author is thought to be one of Mexico's greatest writers, but quite frankly I found it a hard slug! I just couldn't get into it. It was a very difficult read. I kept having to reread whole pages of the darn thing.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good stuff.  I like Fuentes' take on the &quot;border&quot; between the U.S. and Mexico and how it doesn't really exist in culture.  Politics make it so, and it makes the lives of those striving on either side for self-actualization that much more difficult.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Enjoyed it a lot...though some of the themes didn't always resonate with some of the border reality that I know.  It's made me think about how much narco money probably runs through this town...]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great novel about the relationship between Mexico and the United States lived through the people of both countries, but mostly those of Mexico. A book of enlightenment.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked the circularity of this collection of stories. You feel as though the characters are all connected to each other in some way or another. Fuentes deftly mixes slice-of-life tales with philosophical and historical reflections that carry with them heavy political undertones. Whether or not you ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24124193">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Es muy probable que sea el primer libro que haya leído de Fuentes y la verdad me gustó demasiado. No creo que pueda hablar críticamente de esta novela en relatos, sino, más bien desde la nostalgia de alguien que recuerda las lecturas que lo fueron formando.<br/><br/>Ese mundo de inmigrantes qu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24717062">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The low ratings others posted are confounding. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the current relationship between Mexico and the United States. The book interweaves stories from different people on both sides of the border, elegantly showing the differences and similarities between u...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/348476">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[They don't call Fuentes a genius for nothin'. This is one of my favorite books ever.  If I could give it ten stars I would! It's written as multiple short stories with a central thread of which each story exploits a different aspect. Highly recommend.]]></body>
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