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Christopher Unborn

Carlos Fuentes Alfred MacAdam

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English
Dalkey Archive Press
09 January 2006
Conceived exactly nine months before the five-hundredth anniversary of Columbus's discovery of the New World, the narrator of Christopher Unborn spends the novel waiting to be born. But what kind of world will he be delivered into? ""Makesicko City,"" as the punning narrator calls it, is not doing well in this alternate, worst-case-scenario 1992. Politicians are selling pieces of their country to the United States. A black, acid rain falls relentlessly, forewarning of the even worse ecological catastrophes to come. Gangs of children, confined to the slums, terrorize their wealthy neighbors. A great novel of ideas and a work of aesthetic boldness, Christopher Unborn is a unique, and quite funny, work from one of the twentieth century's most respected authors.
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Imprint:   Dalkey Archive Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 155mm,  Spine: 39mm
Weight:   802g
ISBN:   9781564783394
ISBN 10:   1564783391
Series:   Latin American Literature Series
Pages:   531
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Carlos Fuentes Mac as was a Mexican novelist and essayist. Among his works are The Death of Artemio Cruz, Aura, Terra Nostra, The Old Gringo and Christopher Unborn.

Reviews for Christopher Unborn

"""In Christopher Unborn, Carlos Fuentes has imagined the worst for his country's near future, but he's done it with such humor, verve, invention, erudition and baroque whirligig plotting that the result is a vital, hopeful book, a great salvage operation in the trash heaps of Western culture, Spanish literature and Mexican history."""


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