Years with Laura Diaz Carlos Fuentes Sources surprises us with a story that summarizes the last century of the history of Mexico through the eyes of a woman in the process of finding themselves, if made, to love, to accept the contradictions and overcome their failures, in short to become a personality.
Years with Laura Diaz is a novel that covers almost a century of Mexican life. Is framed by two events that happen in two cities in the United States in our time, Detroit and Los Angeles. Laura Diaz is also connected, through lovers, friends and colleagues, with other central events of the twentieth century, as the war in Spain or the McCarthyite persecution in the United States.
With the personal style of Carlos Fuentes we're entering into history through chapters that in turn introduced a year and a population, although the action is not developed on time and each time period varies with a large Unlike years. Throughout history they appear, also real people: writers such as Mariano Azuela revolution or figures of the Mexican muralists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to which Laura will be very close. The abortion of the Mexican painter, his spiritual delicacies, her physical problems as a result of an accident, are treated with great narrative force.
On the final page of the novel, Carlos Fuentes says, "the best novelists in the world are our grandmothers and them, first, I owe the memory underlying this novel
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