Carlos Fuentes

An exploration of love, lust and betrayal. The central character is Diana Soren, an elegy for a decade that refused to die. She is a predator set on self-destruction, and a casualty of her own times and beauty. Meer

An epic and heartbreaking love story that will leave no one untouched. Meer

Young Jose Francisco grows up in Texas, determined to write about the border world - the immigrants and illegals, Mexican poverty and Yankee prosperity - stories to break the stand-off silence with a victory shout, to shatter at last the crystal frontier. Meer

The remarkable new novel by Mexico's preeminent novelist Carlos Fuentes, now in paperback Meer