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Carlos Fuentes
Born
in Panama City, Panama
November 11, 1928
Died
May 15, 2012
Genre
Influences
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Aura
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published
1962
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30 editions
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The Death of Artemio Cruz
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published
1962
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65 editions
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The Old Gringo
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published
1985
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31 editions
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La región más transparente
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published
1958
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94 editions
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The Eagle's Throne
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published
2003
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3 editions
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Vlad
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published
2004
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8 editions
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Los años con Laura Díaz
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published
1999
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85 editions
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The Crystal Frontier
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published
1995
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49 editions
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Terra Nostra
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published
1975
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77 editions
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The Good Conscience
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Polls
What is your second choice the next 12 months of book club schedule?
Independent People — Halldór Kiljan Laxness (Iceland)
Snow — Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being — Milan Kundera (Prague)
The Tortilla Curtain — T.C. Boyle (US/Mexico border)
Cuba Diaries: An American Housewife in Havana — Isadora Tattlin (Cuba)
The Kite Runner — Khaled Hosseini (Afghanistan)
The Tin Drum — Günter Grass (Germany)
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle — Haruki Murakami (Japan)
The Inheritance of Loss — Kiran Desai (Nepal/NY)
The Bathhouse — Farnoosh Moshiri (Iran)
Lolita — Vladimir Nabokov (Russia)
The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov (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)
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)
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)
Time on Ice: A Winter Voyage to Antarctica — Deborah Shapiro
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)
Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China — Jung Chang (China)
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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| College Students! : Fall/Winter 2010-2011: Questions & Discussion | 167 | 140 | Feb 26, 2011 11:48AM | |
| Pick-a-Shelf: 2011-06 - World Lit - What will you read in June? | 64 | 83 | Jul 05, 2011 08:33AM | |
| Pick-a-Shelf: 2011-06 - World Lit - Post June Reviews Here | 61 | 51 | Jul 13, 2011 08:07AM | |
| Challenge: 50 Books: Candiss's 2011 Book Challenge | 78 | 179 | Dec 31, 2011 03:15PM | |
| Knjigom u glavu: Predlaganje knjiga za travanj-kratke priče | 17 | 62 | Mar 21, 2012 11:25AM | |
| 2025 Reading Chal...: Sharif's corner | 3 | 22 | Sep 11, 2012 07:51AM |
