Praise for The Old Gringo

A challenging meditation on politics, love and the burden of history itself … What lingers most in this profound work are the images that convey the wondrous grandeur of a society in transformation. The Old Gringo is a brilliant fiction, a luminous and compelling chronicle.

—Henry Mayer, San Francisco Chronicle

Sensual and mind-pleasing … The Old Gringo … is the work of an integrated personality, the artist who contains and illuminates all the layers of all the times and cultures of a nation.

—Earl Shorris, The New York Times Book Review

Fuentes gives us history as a dream that we might knowingly inhabit, where, as in a dream, the most extraordinary events would require no explanation.

—Jay Cantor, The Boston Globe

In The Old Gringo Carlos Fuentes levels his gaze on a triad of weighty subjects: the Mexican Revolution, a still-innocent United States and the enigmatic career of its most curious man of letters. That he illuminates all three in a slim volume is a tribute to the economical power of his art. It radiates authenticity. Fuentes understands the Mexican Revolution as only a visionary can.

—Dennis Drabelle, USA Today