02448cam a2200469Ia 4500 96505 20230410130905.0 100503s2010 sp 000 f spa d (OCoLC)ocn610842925 C3L C3L I5B U3G 9788420405995 842040599X C3L 60698927 NLGGC 32693409X (OCoLC)610842925 nc----- n-mx--- x4x- PQ 7297 F954a 2010 863 GRAL Fuentes, Carlos, 1928- Adán en Edén / Carlos Fuentes. Madrid : Santillana Ediciones Generales, c2010. 177 p. ; 24 cm. La edad del tiempo. XII El tiempo político ; 4 Novel. Simultaneously publ. in Mexico. C. Fuentes, Mexican writer. Comic 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. Literatura mexicana Mexico Social conditions 21st century Fiction. Mexico Politics and government 21st century Fiction. Lawyers Mexico Fiction. Prophets Fiction. Mexico City (Mexico) Fiction. Fuentes, Carlos. Edad del tiempo. Tiempo político ; t. 4. Casalini Libri CASA 60698927 16.50 EUR Iberbook International S.L. IBER IB 100005322 USD23,61 lcc bk mjcruz C0 DRFGD 82201 82201 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-04-10 1 0 PQ 7297 F954a 2010 00000090055 2018-10-25 00:00:00 1 2018-10-25 bk