Inez - 9780747568162

InezAuthor(s): Carlos Fuentes, Margaret Sayers Peden, Margaret Sayers Peden\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\nISBN-13: 9780747568162, 978-0747568162\nSynopsis\n_________________________\n\nDazzling ... The translation by Margaret Sayers Paden is elegant' - New York Times Book Review\n\nA complex, focused novel ' - The Times\n\n'Passionate ... a paean to music and musical genius, to romantic love and the mysterious sources of language and creativity' - Newsday\n_________________________\n\nIn this magical story of love and art, life and death, Carlos Fuentes entwines two narratives: one tells of the passion of orchestra conductor Gabriel Atlan-Ferrara for red-haired Mexican diva, Inez Prada; the other of the first encounter in human history between a man and a woman. Berlioz's music for The Damnation of Faust brings Atlan-Ferrara and Inez together, and continues to resound on every page of this haunting work.