Where the Air Is Clear
Ixca Cienfuegos moves through post-revolutionary Mexico City gathering the lives of bankers, ruined aristocrats, union men and taxi drivers, and asks each of them for a sacrifice he says the place is owed. A financier who began as a revolutionary soldier sits at the top of the heap; an Indian mother waits underneath it. Fuentes's first, and the book that made the capital itself a character.
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- influenced by ↑ U.S.A. Trilogy
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