Dec 28, 2009

The Years with Laura Díaz | The Years with Laura Díaz

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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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The Years with Laura Díaz | The Years with Laura Díaz

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