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Conceived exactly nine months before the five-hundredth anniversary of Columbus's discovery of the New World, the narrator of Christopher Unborn spends the novel waiting to be born. But what kind of world will he be delivered into?
A young couple, Angel and Angeles, plan to have a male child born exactly at midnight on October 12, 1992, and to name him Christopher in order to win a government prize offered to...
Dive deep into Carlos Fuentes' Christopher Unborn with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion
Christopher Unborn is the tenth novel by the Mexican author Carlos Fuentes. Originally published by the Fondo de Cultura Económica in 1987, the first U.S. edition was published in 1989 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Guess who’s going to win? The unborn child, as narrators in other Fuentes novels, examines Mexican myth and history, including the 1910 revolution and the current situation. What he sees is not pretty and he even has doubts about being born.
This inspired novel, Christopher Unborn, is narrated by the as yet unborn first child to be born on October 12, 1992, the five hundredth anniversary of...
Aug 1, 1989 · In 1922, Mexico is sinking fast, and to bolster- the populace the government relies upon symbols, including a contest: the first boy born on the 12th of October, 1992 (the 500th anniversary of Columbus), will become Regent of the Nation.
