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Happy Families

In these masterly vignettes, Fuentes explores Tolstoy's classic observation that "happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." In "A Family Like Any Other," each member of the Pagan family lives in isolation, despite sharing a tiny house. In "The Mariachi's Mother," the limitless devotion of a woman is revealed as she secretly tends to her estranged son's wounds. "Sweethearts" reunites old lovers unexpectedly and opens up the possibilities for other lives and other loves. These are just a few of the remarkable stories in Happy Families, but they all inhabit Fuentes's trademark Mexico, where modern obsessions bump up against those of the mythic past, and the result is a triumphant display of the many ways we reach out to one another and find salvation through irrepressible acts of love.

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  • "Todas las familias felices"@it

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  • "In these masterly vignettes, Fuentes explores Tolstoy's classic observation that "happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." In "A Family Like Any Other," each member of the Pagan family lives in isolation, despite sharing a tiny house. In "The Mariachi's Mother," the limitless devotion of a woman is revealed as she secretly tends to her estranged son's wounds. "Sweethearts" reunites old lovers unexpectedly and opens up the possibilities for other lives and other loves. These are just a few of the remarkable stories in Happy Families, but they all inhabit Fuentes's trademark Mexico, where modern obsessions bump up against those of the mythic past, and the result is a triumphant display of the many ways we reach out to one another and find salvation through irrepressible acts of love."@en
  • "Interconnected narratives about very different branches of contemporary Mexican society."
  • "Recueil de seize nouvelles autour du thème de la famille : deux frères s'affrontent pour des raisons politiques, un homme marié à une très belle femme tombe amoureux d'une femme très laide, une mère écrit au meurtrier de sa fille, un vieil homme retrouve son amour de jeunesse, etc. Un portrait du Mexique, de son histoire et de sa culture."
  • "The internationally acclaimed winner of the Cervantes Prize presents a stunning novel about family and love across an expanse of Mexican life."
  • "Un ranchero quiere que sus cuatro hijos sean sacerdotes; ellos piensan distinto. Un hombre es humillado por su patrón; su hijo quisiera humillarlo más. Una madre renuncia a su carrera de cantante y se pregunta si valió la pena; su hija renuncia al mundo y vive a través de los reality shows. El hijo del presidente se rebela contra su padre, pero depende de su protección. Una mujer sufre el sadismo de su marido porque recuerda cómo se inició su amor. Una madre dolorosa explica la vida de su hija al hombre que la asesinó. Un comandante debe escoger quién vivirá de sus dos hijos. Estas historias son puntuadas por "coros", algunos humorísticos, la mayoría trágicos, que dan voz a los sin-voz: niños mendicantes, hijas violadas, huérfanos, pandillas asesinas. Este libro es la polifonía narrativa de los ramales conflictivos del México contemporáneo y, por extensión, de la América Latina y del mundo urbano moderno.--Desde la descripción de la editorial."

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  • "Short stories"@en
  • "Short stories"
  • "Short stories, Mexican"@en
  • "Short stories, Mexican"
  • "Mexican fiction"
  • "Novela mexicana"@es
  • "Anthologie"
  • "Popular literature"
  • "Verhalend proza"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Powieść meksykańska"@pl
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "Todas las familias felices"
  • "Todas las familias felices"@es
  • "Happy Families"@en
  • "Wszystkie szczęśliwe rodziny"
  • "Wszystkie szczęśliwe rodziny"@pl
  • "Alle gelukkige gezinnen"
  • "Tutte le famiglie felici"
  • "Tutte le famiglie felici"@it
  • "Le bonheur des familles : récits"
  • "Le bonheur des familles récits"
  • "Alle glücklichen Familien"
  • "Happy familes historias"
  • "Happy families"
  • "Happy families : stories"@en
  • "Happy families : stories"
  • "Le bonheur des familles"
  • "Happy families stories"@en
  • "Happy Families"

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