Aura - by Carlos Fuentes (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Felipe Montero is employed in the house of an aged widow to edit her deceased husband's memoirs. There Felipe meets her beautiful green-eyed niece, Aura. His passion for Aura and his gradual discovery of the true relationship between the young woman and her aunt propel the story to its extraordinary conclusion.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"When you finish, you . . . have gone through a total experience, a beautiful horror story, a horrifying story of beauty, a combination of Poe, Baudelaire, and Isak Dinesen, translated so agilely by Lysander Kemp that it seems to have been written in English." --<i>Newsweek</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Carlos Fuentes (1928-2012)</b> was one of the most influential and celebrated voices in Latin American literature. He was the author of 24 novels, including <i>The Death of Artemio Cruz</i>, <i>The Old Gringo</i> and <i>Terra Nostra</i>, and also wrote numerous plays, short stories, and essays. He received the 1987 Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's highest literary honor. <p/>Fuentes was born in Panama City, the son of Mexican parents, and moved to Mexico as a teenager. He served as an ambassador to England and France, and taught at universities including Harvard, Princeton, Brown and Columbia. He died in Mexico City in 2012.</p>
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