Fuentes, Carlos.

The Hydra Head. [Signed] Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.

First Edition. New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1978. 22 cm. 291 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition. Beautifully signed by Fuentes on the halftitle.

“A minor Mexican bureaucrat unintentionally becomes involved in the assassination of his President when he is manipulated by people who are as hard as the political realities that created them”. (Amazon)
Carlos Fuentes (November 11, 1928 – May 15, 2012) was a Mexican novelist and essayist. Among his works are “The Death of Artemio Cruz” (1962), “Aura” (1962), “Terra Nostra” (1975), “The Old Gringo” (1985) and “Christopher Unborn” (1987). In his obituary, The New York Times described Fuentes as “one of the most admired writers in the Spanish-speaking world” and an important influence on the Latin American Boom, the “explosion of Latin American literature in the 1960s and ‘70s”,[1] while The Guardian called him “Mexico’s most celebrated novelist”.[2] His many literary honors include the Miguel de Cervantes Prize as well as Mexico’s highest award, the Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor. He was often named as a likely candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, though he never won. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: Latin American Literature – Rare
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 44344AB

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