TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fuentes,Carlos
TI  - Adán en Edén
T2  - La edad del tiempo
SN  - 9788420405995
AV  - PQ 7297 F954a 2010
U1  - 863 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Madrid
PB  - Santillana Ediciones Generales
KW  - Literatura mexicana
KW  - Lawyers
KW  - Mexico
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Prophets
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Mexico City (Mexico)
N1  - Novel; Simultaneously publ. in Mexico; C. Fuentes, Mexican writer
N2  - Comic novel that deals head-on with many of the gravest issues of 21st-century Mexico. Key to its hilarity is the idiosyncratic, self-absorbed voice of the narrator, an ambitious attorney who made his place in the public sphere by marrying the flatulent daughter of a biscuit magnate. When his wife, a woman prone to bizarre non sequiturs, begins a romance with a loutish official who oversees a barbaric and fraudulent government crackdown on crime, all hell breaks loose. Meanwhile an apparently heaven-sent child prophet appears at a busy Mexico City intersection, stopping traffic while starting a national debate. Adán en Edén is entertainingly freewheeling with its themes and cultural references, which include poverty, drug violence, sex, Mexican history, telenovelas, U.S.-Mexican immigration, and the Palm Pre smart phone. Fuentes even finds room for a precisely measured burlesque of Octavio Paz's role in promoting dogmatic factionalism in Mexican letters
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