Copyright © 1999 by Carlos Fuentes

English translation copyright © 2000 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC

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eISBN 9780374706425

First eBook Edition : March 2011

 

 

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This is a translation of Los Anos con Laura Díaz.

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the excerpt from “Vegetation,” from Canto General, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, by Pablo Neruda, edited and translated by Jack Schmitt, copyright © 1991 Fundación Pablo Neruda, Regents of the University of California Reprinted by permission of the University of California Press.

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