{"product_id":"the-death-of-artemio-cruz-by-carlos-fuentes","title":"'The Death of Artemio Cruz' by Carlos Fuentes","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"48\" data-end=\"583\"\u003eArtemio Cruz is dying in bed: rich, powerful, corrupted, physically collapsing, and surrounded by the people who have learned to orbit him as money, threat, patriarch, relic. \u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"48\" data-end=\"583\"\u003eFrom that deathbed, the novel moves backward and sideways through his life: revolutionary fighter, lover, opportunist, land baron, newspaper magnate, political fixer, and finally one of those men who mistakes accumulation for survival until the body files its final paperwork. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"585\" data-end=\"1248\"\u003eFuentes uses Cruz’s memories to build a fractured history of modern Mexico after the Revolution. He tracks the idealism curdling into ownership, love becoming leverage, political struggle becoming property, and the self turning into a private archive of betrayals. It is a major Latin American modernist novel, structurally restless and morally nasty in the useful way — deathbed confession as national autopsy. The FSG Classics edition uses Alfred MacAdam’s translation and sits very nicely beside Borges, Asturias, García Márquez, Vargas Llosa, etc., but with more old-man-empire rot. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1250\" data-end=\"1424\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFSG Classics paperback, 2009 edition, translated by Alfred MacAdam. Good second-hand condition with light shelf wear and clean internal pages.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45544173895763,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-06-07T113847.897.png?v=1780796345","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/the-death-of-artemio-cruz-by-carlos-fuentes","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}