Christopher Unborn
Conceived on an Acapulco beach in a national contest to produce the child born on the stroke of Columbus's five-hundredth anniversary, a narrator addresses the reader from the womb through nine months of a Mexico that has sold off Yucatán, drowned its capital in smog and renamed itself Makesicko City. His parents' punning runs in four languages at once. Fuentes at his most Joycean and his most furious.
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- modeled on ↑ The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
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