Mexico City · 1962 · citedThe Death of Artemio Cruz
Carlos Fuentes
A corrupt press baron lies dying in his Mexico City mansion, and his fevered memory ranges back across the making of modern Mexico: his birth on a Veracruz estate, the Revolution in which he fought and betrayed, the marriage into a Puebla landowning family that founded his fortune, and the empire of newspapers and deals he built in the capital. Fuentes maps a life onto a country, the deathbed in the city holding all the places that made Artemio Cruz.
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