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He was the author of 24 novels, including aura, the death of artemio cruz, the old gringo and terra nostra, and also wrote numerous plays, short stories, and essays. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. Carlos fuentes has imagined the worst for his countrys near future, but hes done it with so much humor, verve, invention, erudition and baroque whirligig plotting that the result is a vital, hopeful book, a great salvage operation in the trash heaps of western culture, spanish literature and mexican history. Terra nostra by carlos fuentes is an epic novel about spain, spanish america, and the world.
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