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      Where the Air Is Clear

      by Carlos Fuentes
      Published
      Jan 1988
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      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      384
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      My name is Ixca Cienfuegos. I was born and I live in Mexico City. Which is not so grave: in Mexico City there is never tragedy but only outrage.

      Thus begins Carlos Fuentes's first novel, unfolding a panorama in which many people's lives depend on the fact that they live in today's Mexico City, where the air is clear and yet filled with the old gods and devils still struggling to overcome the new, where a long and bloody revolution is still being fought and paid for in flesh. The vividness of Fuentes's characters and the country that is theirs has made many critics claim this as his best novel. It is unquestionably among the finest works of literature to be produced in the Western Hemisphere.

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      First Edition Jan 1988 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0374509190
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