The Years with Laura Díaz – Carlos Fuentes 2000 | 1st Edition SIGNED

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Author: Carlos Fuentes
Publisher: Farrar Straus, Giroux, NY 2000
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Size: 8vo
Attributes: First Edition, Signed, Dust Jacket

First edition, first printing. Binding tight, internally fine, unmarked. Signed by the author on the front paste-down. Fine in Fine DJ.

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A sweeping masterpiece of Latin American literature, The Years with Laura Díaz (1999) by Carlos Fuentes traces the life of its eponymous heroine across seven decades of Mexico’s turbulent 20th century. Carlos Fuentes, one of Mexico’s most celebrated authors, crafts an intimate yet epic narrative that begins with Laura’s childhood in the coffee plantations of Veracruz during the Mexican Revolution and follows her through the artistic ferment of post-revolutionary Mexico City, the political upheavals of the Spanish Civil War, and the student protests of 1968.

Through Laura’s eyes – as wife, lover, mother, artist’s muse, and political witness – Fuentes explores the intersection of personal destiny and national history. The novel vividly portrays her encounters with real historical figures, including Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, while maintaining its focus on Laura’s inner world: her passions, compromises, and hard-won wisdom.

A masterwork of Latin American literature, The Years with Laura Díaz stands alongside Fuentes’ classics like The Death of Artemio Cruz. It is both a love letter to Mexico and a meditation on how individual lives intersect with history.

For readers who enjoy Gabriel García Márquez’s sweeping narratives or Elena Poniatowska’s historical fiction, this novel offers a rich, immersive experience.