
Where the Air Is Clear
My name is Ixca Cienfuegos. I was born and I live in Mexico City. Which is not so grave: in Mexico City there is never tragedy but only outrage.
Thus begins Carlos Fuentes''s first novel, unfolding a panorama in which many people''s lives depend on the fact that they live in today''s Mexico City, where the air is clear and yet filled with the old gods and devils still struggling to overcome the...
My name is Ixca Cienfuegos. I was born and I live in Mexico City. Which is not so grave: in Mexico City there is never tragedy but only outrage.
Thus begins Carlos Fuentes''s first novel, unfolding a panorama in which many people''s lives depend on the fact that they live in today''s Mexico City, where the air is clear and yet filled with the old gods and devils still struggling to overcome the...