Laura Diaz is a passionated character, intimately connected to many historical events. Through her story, Carlos Fuentes writes the journal of the Mexican twentieth century, supporting his novel with facts and characters that define the shape of today's Mexico. Description in Spanish: A través de la historia de un personaje entrañable que es testigo de los acontecimien...(展开全部)

Laura Diaz is a passionated character, intimately connected to many historical events. Through her story, Carlos Fuentes writes the journal of the Mexican twentieth century, supporting his novel with facts and characters that define the shape of today's Mexico. Description in Spanish: A través de la historia de un personaje entrañable que es testigo de los acontecimien...(展开全部)

A radiant family saga set in a century of Mexican history, by one of the world's greatest writers. Carlos Fuentes's hope-filled new novel sees the twentieth century through the eyes of Laura D'az, a woman who becomes as much a part of our history as of the Mexican history she observes and helps to create. Born in 1898, this extraordinary woman grows into a wife and mother, bec...(展开全部)

A radiant family saga set in a century of Mexican history, by one of the world's greatest writers. Carlos Fuentes's hope-filled new novel sees the twentieth century through the eyes of Laura D'az, a woman who becomes as much a part of our history as of the Mexican history she observes and helps to create. Born in 1898, this extraordinary woman grows into a wife and mother, bec...(展开全部)

Laura y Julio encierra un juego de espejos y realidades compartidas. Recién separado, Julio decide ocupar en secreto el piso vacío de un vecino, buen amigo de la pareja, y al hacerlo usurpa también su ropa y sus hábitos cotidianos, y con ellos su forma de ver el mundo, a sí mismo y a su propia ex esposa. En el transcurso de esta metamorfosis, Julio descubre una vida nueva que t...(展开全部)

哈维尔•马里亚斯，西班牙著名作家，1951年生于马德里。他的父亲胡里安•马里亚斯是西班牙著名哲学家，因为反对佛朗哥政权而被监禁，获释后被禁止在西班牙任教，于是他带全家去了美国大学教书。 哈维尔•马里亚斯从小立志写作。他在21岁之前就出版了两部小说《狼的领地》（1971）和《地平线之旅》（1973）。从马德里康普顿斯大学毕业后的六年之内，他的兴趣转向文学翻译，先后把厄普代克、哈代、康拉德、纳博科夫、福克纳、吉卜林、亨利•詹姆斯、史蒂文森、约翰•阿什伯利、莎士比亚等作家的书翻译成西班牙文。1979年，他因翻译《项狄传》而获得西班牙国家翻译奖。1983年至1985年，哈维尔•马里亚斯在牛津大学教授西班牙文学和翻译理论。 马里亚斯的第七部小说《如此苍白的心》（1992）为他带来了空前的成功，英译版1997年获得IMPAC都柏林国际文学奖。此后他又出版《明日战...(展开全部)

A group of random people receives notice that they have won a cruise. Once they become passengers onboard the Malcolm, they find themselves tangled in the web of a mystery that is as symbolic as it is ludicrous. The feeling of detachment from one's normal life, typical of vacation cruises, motivates the travelers to undertake the search to resolve the enigma. The enthusiasm and...(展开全部)