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Christopher Unborn

Christopher Unborn

( Spanish - Cristóbal Nonato - 1987 )

novel by Carlos Fuentes

translated by Alfred MacAdam and author

Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - hardback - 1989 ( US )
ISBN: 0374123349 / 9780374123345

Andre Deutsch - hardback - 1089 ( UK )
ISBN: 0233980164 / 9780233980164

Picador - trade paperback - 1990
ISBN:0330315641 / 9780330315647

Vintage - trade paperback - 1990
ISBN: 0679732225 / 9780679732228

Dalkey Archive Press - paperback - 2009
ISBN: 1564783391 / 9781564783394


synopsis
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? "Makesicko City," as the punning narrator calls it, is not doing well in this alternate, worst-case-scenario 1992. Politicians are selling pieces of their country to the United States. A black, acid rain falls relentlessly, forewarning of the even worse ecological catastrophes to come. Gangs of children, confined to the slums, terrorize their wealthy neighbors.

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