02136cam a2200361Ia 45000010006000000050017000060080041000230350024000640400023000880200018001110200015001290350021001440430021001650450009001860500024001950820008002191000028002272450040002552600054002953000021003494900055003705000011004255000036004365000032004725200977005046500024014816510054015056510060015596500030016196500023016496510035016728000067017079650520230410130905.0100503s2010    sp            000 f spa d  a(OCoLC)ocn610842925  aC3LcC3LdI5BdU3G  a9788420405995  a842040599X  a(OCoLC)610842925  anc-----an-mx---  ax4x-14aPQ 7297bF954a 201000a8631 aFuentes, Carlos,d1928-10aAdán en Edén /cCarlos Fuentes.  aMadrid :bSantillana Ediciones Generales,cc2010.  a177 p. ;c24 cm.1 aLa edad del tiempo.aXII El tiempo político ;v4  aNovel.  aSimultaneously publ. in Mexico.  aC. Fuentes, Mexican writer.  aComic novel that deals head-on with many of the gravest issues of 21st-century Mexico. Key to its hilarity is the idiosyncratic, self-absorbed voice of the narrator, an ambitious attorney who made his place in the public sphere by marrying the flatulent daughter of a biscuit magnate. When his wife, a woman prone to bizarre non sequiturs, begins a romance with a loutish official who oversees a barbaric and fraudulent government crackdown on crime, all hell breaks loose. Meanwhile an apparently heaven-sent child prophet appears at a busy Mexico City intersection, stopping traffic while starting a national debate. Adán en Edén is entertainingly freewheeling with its themes and cultural references, which include poverty, drug violence, sex, Mexican history, telenovelas, U.S.-Mexican immigration, and the Palm Pre smart phone. Fuentes even finds room for a precisely measured burlesque of Octavio Paz's role in promoting dogmatic factionalism in Mexican letters. 4aLiteratura mexicana 0aMexicoxSocial conditionsy21st centuryvFiction. 0aMexicoxPolitics and governmenty21st centuryvFiction. 0aLawyerszMexicovFiction. 0aProphetsvFiction. 0aMexico City (Mexico)vFiction.1 aFuentes, Carlos.tEdad del tiempo.pTiempo político ;vt. 4.