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Destiny and desire : a novel / Carlos Fuentes ; translated by Edith Grossman.
- Title
- Destiny and desire : a novel / Carlos Fuentes ; translated by Edith Grossman.
- Author
- Fuentes, Carlos
- Publication
- New York : Random House, ©2011.
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- Additional Authors
- Grossman, Edith, 1936-2023
- Description
- 415 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- The severed head of Josuãe Nadal, floating in the Pacific Ocean off the shore of Mexico, remembers his life, friends, enemies, and lovers, and his involvement in the drug trade and the corruption frequently encountered in his country.
- Uniform Title
- Voluntad y la fortuna. English
- Alternative Title
- Voluntad y la fortuna.
- Subject
- 2000-2099
- Death > Fiction
- Drug traffic > Mexico > Fiction
- Mexican fiction > 21st century
- Roman mexicain > 21e siècle
- Mort > Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Drogues > Trafic > Mexique > Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Drug traffic
- Death
- Mexican fiction
- Death > Fiction
- Mexico > Fiction
- Central America > Fiction
- Amérique centrale > Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Central America
- Mexico
- Genre/Form
- Psychological fiction
- Fiction
- Romance fiction
- Note
- Translation of: La voluntad y la fortuna originally published in Spanish in Mexico City, in 2008.
- Credits (note)
- Carlos Fuentes ; translated by Edith Grossman.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Spanish.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Severed head -- Castor and Pollux -- Miguel Aparecido -- Max Monroy -- Cain and Abel -- Ascent to heaven.
- ISBN
- 9781400068807
- 1400068800
- 9780679604457
- 0679604456
- 9789781400063
- 9781400064
- LCCN
- 2010015078
- OCLC
- 607084885
- SCSB-11044863
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library