Christopher Unborn (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Carlos Fuentes
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: Family or family life, Politics, Revolutionaries, Future, Reality, Mexico or Mexicans, Labor, Time, Comedy, Pollution, Satire
- Locales: Mexico City, Mexico
CHRISTOPHER UNBORN, originally published in Spanish as CRISTOBAL NONATO in 1987, is a wildly inventive novel. In 1992, Mexico is crumbling; Mexico City is choking because of overpopulation and gross governmental mismanagement. Into this depressing world, Fuentes inserts a young couple, Angel and Angeles, who conceive a child while on the beach at Acapulco. The Mexican government has announced that it will award a large prize to the first male born on Columbus Day, October 12, 1992, because it will be the five hundredth anniversary of Columbus’ discovery of America. The narrator of...
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