Distant Relations

Carlos Fuentes

Original title: Familia lejana

Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden earliest edition we have, 1982 Dalkey Archive Press, 2006 paperback 225 pages

Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden During a long, lingering lunch at the Automobile Club de France, the elderly Comte de Branly tells a story to a friend, unnamed until the closing pages, who is in fact the first-person narrator of the novel. Branly's story is of a family named Heredia: Hugo, a noted Mexican archaeologist, and his young son, Victor, whom Branly met in Cuernavaca and who became his house guest in Par...

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Margaret Sayers Peden 1 printing we hold · 2006 · Dalkey Archive Press

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Distant Relations paperback · 2006 · Dalkey Archive Press · 225 pages · 9781564783455
Distant Relations edition · 1987 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 242 pages · 9780374518134
Distant relations edition · 1982 · Farrar Straus Giroux · 225 pages

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