Carlos Fuentes: 5 best novels

Throughout his decades-long literary career, Carlos Fuentes produced more than 20 books. Here are five of his best.

5. Christopher Unborn (1989)

Fuentes’s tenth novel, “Christopher Unborn” is told from the perspective of a fetus, or as yet unborn child, who is due to enter the world on October 12, 1992, the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s “discovery” of America. Through the unborn Christopher, Fuentes writes of Mexico’s decline and predicts more pain in his country’s future.

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