CARLOS FUENTES

TERRA NOSTRA

Printed in United States, softcover.

TRANSLATED BY MARGARET SAYERS PEDEN

AFTERWORD BY MILAN KUNDERA

" The supreme example of a totalliterary creation, of the creative disruption of writing, of the cultural ransacking of the totality of the Spanish language. Terra Nostra is not only Carlos Fuentess major work. It is also, beyond any doubt, one of the great monuments of the Spanish-language novel."
Juan Goytisolo

Terra Nostra is one of the great masterpieces of modern Latin American fiction. Concerned with nothing less than the history of Spain and of South America, with the lndian Gods and with Christianity, with the birth, the passion, and the death of civilizations, Fuentes's great novel is, indeed, that rare creation-the total work of art.
Magnificently translated by Margaret Sayers Peden, Terra Nostra is, as Milan Kundera says in his afterword, "the spreading out of the novel, the exploration of its possibilities, the voyage to the edge of what only a novel­ist can see and say."

CARLOS FUENTES, Mexico's leading novelist, was born in 1928. Among his other books, published and honored in many countries, are Where the Air is Clear, Aura, The Death of Artemio Cruz, A Change of Skin, Distant Relations, and The Old Gringo.