A traves de la vida intima de una mujer y sus pasiones, esta novela narra una saga familiar entre mezclada con la historia cultural y politica de un pais convulso donde todo parece estar gestandose simultaneamente.

De Carlos Fuentes autor de Aura, La Silla del Aguila, La region mas transparente y La muerte de Artemio Cruz. Ganador del Premio Principe de Asturias 1994 y el Premio Cervantes 1987.

En Los anos con Laura Diaz, Fuentes, como nunca antes, es fiel a su proposito de describirnos el cruce de caminos donde coinciden la vida individual y la vida colectiva.

La familia que formara Cosima en Veracruz, casada con Felipe, cuya madre era francesa, estara integrada tambien por otras tres mujeres: Hilda, Virginia y Leticia, la madre de Laura. En esta novela Carlos Fuentes narra una saga familiar entremezclada con la historia cultural y politica de un Mexico convulso, donde todo parece estar gestandose simultaneamente. El clamor del tumulto que quiere cambiar el destino de Mexico converge con la ruta colorida de un par de grandes de la pintura universal: Frida Kahlo y Diego Rivera.

Otros autores han opinado:

Los anos con Laura Diaz emociona, conmueve, arranca carcajadas; ademas tiene ambicion y a su autor le sobra oficio para cumplir con ella -Alvaro Enrigue, Letras Libres-

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A radiant and epic new novel that is among the finest achievements of Mexico’s greatest man of letters.

The Years With Laura Diaz is Carlos Fuentes’ most important novel in several decades. Like his masterpiece The Death of Artemio Cruz, the action begins in the state of Veracruz and moves to Mexico City–tracing a migration during the Revolution and its aftermath that was a feature of Mexico’s demographic history and that is a significant element in Fuentes’s fictional world.

Now the principle figure is not Artemio Cruz (who, however, makes a brief appearance) but Fuentes’s first major female protagonist, the extraordinary Laura Diaz. Carlos Fuentes’s richly woven narrative tapestry-filled with a multitude of dramatic scenes both witty, amusing, and heartbreaking-shows us this wonderful creature as she grows into a politically committed artist who is also a wife and mother, a lover of great men, a complicated and alluring heroine whose brave honesty prevails despite her losing a son and grandson to the darkest forces of Mexico’s repressive, corrupt regimes. In the end, Laura Diaz herself dies, after a life filled with tragedy and loss, but she is a happy woman, for she has borne witness to, and helped to affect, the course of history and has vindicated the aims and intentions of the highest art.