Where the Air is Clear

Re-issue. 8vo. 384pp. Illustrated wraps by Siobhan Dodds. Translated by Sam Hileman. Originally published in 1958 in Mexico by Fondo de Cultura Económica as La región más transparente. First published in English by Ivan Obolensky, Inc., New York, in 1960. Re-issued by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, in 1980. The Royal Spanish Academy released a special edition of the book in 2008 to celebrate its 50th anniversary.

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Author's first novel. A portrait of inequality and moral corruption in modern Mexico as related through the trajectory of a former revolutionary embracing life as a powerful financier. "This is the most ambitious and skilful novel to come out of Mexico in a long time, and, at all odds, the most 'modern.' It's the most readable too." –The New York Times