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The Good Conscience

Carlos Fuentes · 1959 CE · Novel · Latin American · Contemporary

A Guanajuato boy from a merchant family that outlasted the Revolution by keeping its head down finds a disowned uncle, a seminarian's arguments and a set of friends his relatives would rather he dropped. Every attempt to break with the house turns out to have been priced by the house in advance. Fuentes at his most conventional, and deliberately so.

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