A New Time for Mexico
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
19 Union Square West, New York 10003
Copyright © 1995 by Carlos Fuentes
Translation copyright© 1997 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc.
All rights reserved
First published in 1995 by Aguilar, Altea Taurus, Alfaguara, S.A. de C.V., Mexico, as La frontera de cristal: Una novela en nueve cuentos
First Farrar, Straus and Giroux edition, 1997
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fuentes, Carlos.
[Frontera de cristal. English]
The crystal frontier: a novel in nine stories / Carlos Fuentes; translated from the Spanish by Alfred MacAdam.—1st Farrar, Straus, and Giroux ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-374-13277-1 (cloth: alk. paper)
I. MacAdam, Alfred J., 1941- . II. Title.
PQ7297.F793F7613 1997
863—dc21
97-11230
CIP
eISBN 9781466839991
First eBook edition: February 2013
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