The Years with Laura Díaz (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Carlos Fuentes
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1898-2000
- Setting: Mexico, Spain, and the United States
- Principal Characters: Laura Díaz, Santiago, Jorge Maura, Juan Francisco
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: History, United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Mexico or Mexicans, Spain or Spanish people
- Locales: United States, Mexico, Spain
The Years with Laura Díaz is Carlos Fuentes’s most recent venture into a passionate chronicle of the growing pains of his nation and its interaction with other nations. The book draws on elements from his family history—the dedication speaks of it as a book of his ancestry—with some of the characters loosely based on offspring from his family tree and stories from his family’s oral tradition. It incorporates the volatile political events and active players of the twentieth century in Mexico, the United States, and worldwide. The book is accented with the subcultures of...
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