5 eur + 2.60 de Portes (livro de 990 gramas, 2 de portes + .60 envelope almofadado)

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Carlos Fuentes – Christopher Unborn - André Deutsch, London, 1989, 1ª edição UK (1ª edição absoluta: "Cristóbal Nonato", México, 1987), 531 páginas.

Hardcover.

Traduzido do Espanhol por Alfred Mac Adam e pelo próprio Fuentes.

A sobrecapa tem alguns sinais de uso, alguns vincos na capa, foto 1, e lombada, foto 2, assim como mínimas falhas no topo da lombada.

De resto, miolo em muito bom estado, sem sublinhados, notas ou assinaturas de posse. Papel de qualidade

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The basic structure of the work, including the story of the character from conception to birth, comes directly from Laurence Sterne’s eighteenth century novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759 to 1767), to which Fuentes refers openly in the novel.

The social satire story is set in Mexico in 1992, which was still a few years into the future when it was written. It follows the character Christopher's entire life in a cataclysmic Mexico on the brink of economic collapse. Other characters in the novel are Angel Palomar y Fagoaga, Angeles Palomar y Fagoaga, Don Homero Fagoaga, Don Fernando Benitez, Lady Mamadoc, Concha Toro, Matamoros Moreno, D. C. Buckley, and Will Gingerich.

Fuentes depicts a dark future for Mexico. It is a story about disaster and survival. The lead character Christopher Palomar, a wonder boy with excellent language skills and total recall, is the narrator who travels through this pessimistic future, where the people still struggle since the last big earthquake in 1985. The novel has a chapter for each of the nine described months of the story, spread out over Christopher's whole life, as he follows in his parents' steps, as they try to save themselves in a chaotic country entering into twilight.