{"product_id":"9780374706425","title":"The Years with Laura Díaz: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A masterwork imbued with historical anecdotes, mystical imagery . . . relates the story of 20th-century Mexico through the fictional biography of Laura Diaz.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly, \u003c\/i\u003estarred review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Years With Laura Diaz\u003c\/i\u003e is Carlos Fuentes' most important novel in several decades. Like his masterpiece \u003ci\u003eThe Death of Artemio Cruz,\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow the principle figure is not Artemio Cruz 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 woman 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter a life filled with tragedy and loss, Laura Diaz 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In Laura Diaz, Fuentes has created a remarkable heroine.\" —\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This novel is like a great painting, like a mural a complex mosaic of national and personal history . . . . It is worthy of applause-that a man who has . . . witnessed the rise and fall of governments, the birth and death of hopes-now has a woman, Laura Díaz, speak for him.\" —Laura Esquivel, \u003ci\u003eReforma\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46513446650097,"sku":"9780374706425","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9780374706425_p0.jpg?v=1766601447","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780374706425","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}