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A Change of Skin

A Holy Week journey from Mexico City toward Veracruz exposes four travellers' relationships and the histories carried beneath their conversations.

Literary fiction

Burnt Water

Carlos Fuentes

Mexico City binds these stories together as unequal lives, historical shadows and unsettling fantasies meet in streets and private rooms.

Short stories

Terra Nostra

Carlos Fuentes

History and myth collide in a sprawling novel that makes Mexico part of an ambitious imaginative encounter with power and the past.

Literary fiction

The Hydra Head

Carlos Fuentes

An intelligence officer enters a web of oil and international intrigue, where competing interests gather around Mexico's resources and political power.

Thriller

Screen adaptation

The Old Gringo

Carlos Fuentes

Ambrose Bierce's imagined final days unfold in revolutionary northern Mexico, where an American outsider meets a country remaking itself through conflict.

Nonfiction

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