- Mexican Short stories, Politics and government, Families, Fiction
Nine stories dealing with U.S.-Mexico relations. In the title story, a Mexican window washer meets an American executive, Girlfriends is about a Mexican maid and her racist Anglo employer, and Rio Grande, Rio Bravo is on border crossings.
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Contemporary, prestige, classical in form and character-led.
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Carlos Fuentes
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 266
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, Harcourt Brace
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780156006200
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Carlos Fuentes Macías (Ciudad de Panamá, 11 de noviembre de 1928-Ciudad de México, 15 de mayo de 2012) fue un escritor mexicano. Junto a Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa y Julio Cortázar, es uno de los exponentes centrales del llamado *boom* latinoamericano. Entre sus novelas destacan *La región más transparente, La muerte de Artemio Cruz* y *Aura.* Recibió, entre otros, el Premio Rómulo Gallegos en 1977, el Cervantes en 1987 y el Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras en 1994. Hasta el día de su fallecimiento fue considerado candidato para obtener el Premio Nobel de Literatura por un sector del público y de la crítica literaria. ---------- Carlos Fuentes Macías (November 11, 1928 – Ma
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