A house of memoirs, memory, and mystery
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A house of memoirs, memory, and mystery
Felipe Montero’s job editing a dead man’s memoirs places him in the home of the writer’s elderly widow, where he meets her niece, Aura. The arrangement links the work of recovering a life on the page with Felipe’s growing fascination and his attempts to understand the bond between the two women. The source description presents the story as a literary work shaped by questions of memory, identity, and the secrets held within a family relationship. This bilingual edition brings Fuentes’s novella to readers in two languages.
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Felipe Montero is employed in the house of an aged widow to edit her deceased husband's memoirs. There Felipe meets her beautiful green-eyed niece, Aura. His passion for Aura and his gradual discovery of the true relationship between the young woman and her aunt propel the story to its extraordinary conclusion.
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